6+ hour, 43+ min ago   (477+ words) With less sea ice blocking sunlight, more light reaches surface waters and encourages phytoplankton growth. Marine heat waves are often seen as another sign that the planet's natural defenses are faltering. But a new global analysis suggests that, in some…...

31+ min ago   (30+ words) The tiny aquatic organisms that can pave the way for sustainability 🕒 Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In the oceans, rivers, and microscopic environments, there …...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (75+ words) Every year, humanity swallows roughly 35,000 metric tons of aspirin, and much of it does not simply vanish after doing its job. A sweeping new review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry argues that one of the world’s oldest…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago   (96+ words) Rice paddies are among the most productive agricultural ecosystems on Earth, feeding billions of people across Asia and beyond. Yet beneath the flooded fields lies a complex microbial world whose balance determines whether the soil stays fertile or degrades over…...

3+ hour, 48+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in South Africa have identified seven non-pathogenic fungal species that can transform agricultural waste into mycelium-based biomaterials with properties that rival, and in some respects exceed, those grown on costly commercial media. The study, published in Applied Microbiology and…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago   (729+ words) A review article that promised to map the future of fish nutrigenomics has been struck from the scientific record, and the reasons behind its retraction are drawing attention far beyond the aquaculture community....

5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (651+ words) The fight against one of the world’s most destructive crop diseases may be taking an unexpected turn beneath the soil surface....

6+ hour, 27+ min ago   (620+ words) Sulfamethoxazole has become one of the most frequently detected pharmaceutical compounds in rivers, lakes, and wastewater effluents around the world. As a widely prescribed antimicrobial, it is only partially metabolized by the human body, and residual quantities pass through conventional…...

7+ hour, 18+ min ago   (73+ words) A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel tanks. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that fusel oil, the mixture of higher alcohols that distillers skim…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (640+ words) The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has unveiled an ambitious new fellowship designed to reshape how the next generation of animal science professionals is trained. Known as F.U.S.E....