Infant formula safety checks can be improved with stratified sampling

Producers of infant formula employ comprehensive food safety systems, including product testing to ensure those systems…

Behind the rind: New genomic insights into watermelon evolution, quality, and resilience

Scientists have constructed a comprehensive ‘super-pangenome’ for watermelon and its wild relatives, uncovering beneficial genes lost…

Evolving elegance: Scientists connect beauty and safeguarding in ammonoid shells

With 350 million years of evolution culminating in almost two centuries of scientific discourse, a new…

Researchers 'film' novel catalyst at work

A novel catalysis scheme enables chemical reactions that were previously virtually impossible. The method is also…

Mosquito hearing could be targeted by insecticides

Specific receptors in the ears of mosquitoes have been revealed to modulate their hearing, finds a…

Chemicals from maize roots influence wheat yield

Maize roots secrete certain chemicals that affect the quality of soil. In some fields, this effect…

Could artificially dimming the sun prevent ice melt?

With methods of so-called geoengineering, the climate could theoretically be artificially influenced and cooled. Researchers have…

Researchers identify 135 new melanin genes responsible for pigmentation

The skin, hair and eye color of more than eight billion humans is determined by the…

Malaria vaccine candidate appears safe and produces promising immune response in a cohort of Tanzanian infants

An experimental malaria vaccine appears safe and promotes an immune response in African infants, one of…

A roadmap to help AI technologies speak African languages

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life…