22+ hour, 1+ min ago   (598+ words) Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels each season. Yet much of that nitrogen never reaches the grain. It leaks into rivers as nitrate, escapes into the…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus tree lies in matching the polarity of the solvent to the chemistry of the target molecules. In a study published…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (620+ words) For decades, clinicians and researchers have searched for a signature cognitive profile that could neatly sort autistic children into meaningful subgroups, hoping that patterns of intellectual strengths and weaknesses might unlock more personalized support. A new study upends that assumption....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (55+ words) Medicine has long been celebrated for its power to prescribe, but one of the most pressing challenges in modern healthcare is knowing when to stop. Deprescribing, the planned and supervised process of tapering or stopping medications whose harms may outweigh…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (86+ words) Meat has shaped human history in ways few other foods can claim. From the earliest days of hominin evolution, regular consumption of animal flesh supplied the dense energy that scientists believe fueled the expansion of the human brain, the development…...