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Springer Nature Honours Standout Editors With 2026 Distinction Awards
14+ min ago (644+ words) Springer Nature has opened the 2026 cycle of its Editor of Distinction Awards, an annual recognition programme that singles out editors across the publisher’s journals whose day-to-day decisions shape the reliability, reach and integrity of the published scientific record....
Cats and Rat Poison: Forensic LC–MS/MS Tracks Five Years of Rodenticide
14+ min ago (89+ words) Cats across South Korea are dying from rodenticide poisoning that often goes undetected, and a new forensic study has now mapped the scale of the problem with unprecedented precision. Researchers at the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency developed and validated…...
Creature thrives at scalding temps too high for all other known life | Nation
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (671+ words) Incendiamoeba cascadensis cell at 55ºC, scale bar 5µm. (Felix Mikus via SWNS) A microscopic creature has been hailed a record breaker by thriving at scalding temperatures that would kill all other known life. The single-celled organism smashed the previous record for heat…...
How replication stress shapes cancer evolution and opens new doors for
46+ min ago (578+ words) Every time a cell divides, it must copy roughly three billion letters of DNA with near-perfect fidelity. That copying process, DNA replication, is among the most demanding operations a cell performs, and it is under constant assault in cancer cells....
Creature thrives at scalding temps too high for all other known life
5+ hour, 7+ min ago (671+ words) Incendiamoeba cascadensis cell at 55ºC, scale bar 5µm. (Felix Mikus via SWNS) A microscopic creature has been hailed a record breaker by thriving at scalding temperatures that would kill all other known life. The single-celled organism smashed the previous record for heat…...
Trypanosome ESCRT Study Reveals Novel Components and Ancient Eukaryotic
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (555+ words) Deep inside every eukaryotic cell, a molecular assembly line sorts membrane proteins for recycling or destruction. The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport, known collectively as the ESCRT system, orchestrates the late steps of endocytosis, capturing ubiquitylated cargo and driving…...
New Wood-Rotting Mushroom Species Unearthed in Pakistan’s Himalayan
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (679+ words) High in the forested slopes of Khanspur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, mycologists have identified a mushroom species previously unknown to science....
Long-Term Fungicide Exposure Makes Foodborne Pathogen Bacillus cereus More
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (75+ words) Agrarian landscapes across the globe are saturated with pesticides, and more than 60 percent of the world’s agricultural land is now considered at risk of pesticide contamination. A new laboratory study published in Current Research in Food Science suggests that this…...
Grass pea faces root rot threat but harbors rich polygenic resistance
4+ hour, 44+ min ago (754+ words) The oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches is one of the most feared soil-borne pathogens in global legume production, capable of devastating pea and lentil fields with necrotic roots, yellowing foliage and, in severe outbreaks, outright plant death....
Under stress, bacterial RNA and proteins tell different stories
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (612+ words) Log into the student web Edit content at umu.se NEWS Researchers at Umeå University have identified stress conditions in which RNA and protein levels diverge in disease-causing bacteria. Under osmotic stress, they traced this mismatch to reduced protein production,…...