Friday 9 October
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By tagging microscopic plastics with gold and palladium, researchers tracked how marine copepods absorb, excrete, and react to different plastic types in their food and water.
A computer-modelling study shows that strategically picking land for Indonesia's community forests can double their combined benefits for climate, wildlife, and poverty alleviation compared to handing out permits at random.
Canada's coastal tidal marshes are shrinking three times faster than in 1988, even inside officially protected conservation zones.
A substance made by gut bacteria digesting soy can slip past the brain's defences to curb damage caused by cadmium poisoning in mice.
Researchers used wearable head caps to track and predict how our brains handle sights and sounds during free outdoor walks.
By tracking awake, playing infants, scientists discovered that the brain rewires differently for specific actions like babbling and grabbing, rather than maturing all at once.
Adding a chemical layer called MGDA beneath solar films anchors moving molecules, creating smoother crystals and boosting efficiency up to 25.50%.
Researchers found that a compact model called MobileNetV2 reliably handles dog breed identification entirely offline on a smartphone in under a tenth of a second.
A hybrid machine learning model sorted 20,758 health profiles with over 90% test accuracy to identify key obesity risk factors. The model found that dietary choices ranked higher in importance than screen time or physical activity.
