Politics
Human rights breaches precede mass atrocities
The road to genocide doesn’t begin with bullets and mass graves, but with more subtle violations.This article was originally published here
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Agriculture
Cover crops hold key to healthier soils in Norwegian agriculture
Cover crops, plants grown to protect and enrich the soil, are known to boost soil health and help store carbon. However, the exact mechanisms behind these benefits, especially under Nordic climate conditions, have been unclear—until […]
Agriculture
Global move towards plant-based diets could reshape farming jobs and reduce labor costs worldwide
A global shift towards healthier, more sustainable eating patterns could reshape agricultural employment across the world, according to new research from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI).This article was originally published here
Politics
Painting memory: Lithuanian researchers explore how street art shapes urban identity
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) linguists have analyzed murals in Lithuania’s second-largest city as elements of a “linguistic landscape”—a concept that views language as both visual and spatial. Their study reveals that street art in […]
Agriculture
Plants under stress: How rye rearranges its genes
Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine their genes and the extent to which this process is influenced by environmental factors such as nutrient […]
Biotech
Researchers develop a cold-resistant tomato variety without compromising plant growth
A new study published in Plant Physiology opens the door to developing more robust and cold-resistant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) varieties. The findings reveal that increasing glycosylated sterol levels in tomato enhances cold tolerance by stabilizing […]
Biotech
Engineered E. coli use direct, cell-to-cell contact to grow into new structures
Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.This article […]
Biotech
Automated chloroplast screening platform speeds up crop trait development
Chloroplasts—the “light power plants” of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house the photosynthetic apparatus and host several metabolic pathways that are of great interest for engineering new traits. Gene insertion […]
Biotech
Soft gel advance enables lab-grown slow-twitch muscles
A team of researchers from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a biomaterial that could change how we treat muscle degeneration and metabolic disorders.This article was […]
Politics
When speaking out feels risky: New study maps hidden dynamics of self-censorship
In an era when social media blurs the line between public and private speech, how do people decide whether to speak their minds or stay silent?This article was originally published here