COVID-19 vaccination and boosting during pregnancy benefits pregnant people and newborns

Receiving a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine or booster during pregnancy can benefit pregnant people and their newborn…

Scientists invent smallest known way to guide light

Through a series of innovative experiments, scientists found that a sheet of glass crystal just a…

Even treated wastewater affects our rivers

Wastewater treatment plants are undoubtedly a great achievement. After all, they have made a significant contribution…

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…