11+ min ago   (55+ words) Every year, the global citrus industry discards millions of tonnes of orange peels, a fragrant mountain of waste rich in pectin, essential oils and polyphenols. Most of this material ends up in landfills or low-value animal feed, even though its…...

15+ min ago   (682+ words) A study that promised a new way to deliver the asthma drug salbutamol sulphate through gelatin-based swellable hydrogels has been struck from the scientific record....

23+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

24+ min ago   (70+ words) A bold new framework is challenging one of philosophy’s oldest questions: what does it take for a system, biological or artificial, to genuinely mean something? In a paper published in Discover Artificial Intelligence, researcher Jaehong Yu introduces the concept of…...

24+ min ago   (55+ words) Dental implants have become one of the most predictable long-term solutions for tooth replacement, yet their success hinges on a deceptively simple biological event: the direct, functional connection between the implant surface and the surrounding jawbone, known as osseointegration. Titanium,…...

24+ min ago   (534+ words) Mapping the wiring of the brain at nanometer resolution has long demanded a punishing trade-off: electron microscopy can reveal every synaptic cleft and organelle, but imaging even a cubic millimeter of neural tissue this way takes months or years of…...

24+ min ago   (718+ words) Slaughterhouses are among the most difficult facilities to keep environmentally clean. Every carcass processed leaves behind a wastewater stream loaded with blood proteins, fats, oils and grease, suspended solids, and an enormous chemical oxygen demand that can overwhelm conventional treatment…...

24+ min ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

24+ min ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

24+ min ago   (627+ words) Teaching a team of artificial intelligence agents to cooperate has long been one of the most stubborn problems in machine learning. Each agent sees only a fragment of the world, the environment shifts beneath them as they learn, and the…...