Edited by Catherine Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; received October 2, 2025; accepted November 11, 2025 ...

One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier in Cambridge, MD. He put hydrogen peroxide on the tiny cuts, thinking that ...

When plants are exposed to stressful environmental conditions, the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) increases and can cause significant damage to the cells. Antioxidant defenses, which can ...

Abiotic stresses, such as water stress (drought and flooding), temperature (cold and heat), salinity, ultraviolet radiation, and heavy metals have intensified in recent decades due to global climate ...

Microplastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental challenges of the Anthropocene because it does not stay ...

Improving plant tolerance to P starvation through molecular breeding is an efficient alternative to increase grain production. In the study, 331 diverse maize inbreds were used to detect nucleotide ...

A research team has developed a multisite bridging-mediated lateral flow immunoassay (mbLFIA) that enables highly sensitive, ...

Chronic iron exposure weakened antioxidant defenses in neurons without killing them, creating a vulnerable state that could help explain neurodegeneration. Now, Dar, Maher, and their team have found ...

Self-propelled nanoparticles use tumor cell chemistry to find target proteins more efficiently and trigger their removal.

A neuroprosthetic system has allowed a man with paralysis to grasp and lift objects and feel touch again. The device helped 42-year-old Keith Thomas of Massapequa, New York, who was paralyzed from the ...