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10+ hour, 36+ min ago  (841+ words) Dr Hugh Goold watches as Sogna Ocello cleaves open a wheel of firm goat’s cheese, wrapped in hay from the grassy slopes of northern Italy. Wielding a silver cheese plane, she spirits a cylindrical skein from its pale ­centre and…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (392+ words) In a discovery that could reshape how scientists think about plant development, researchers report that the spatial “zoning” patterns emerging along growing roots do not depend on the acidity of the cell wall. The findings, published in Nature Plants, address…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (356+ words) Flower color is often treated like an aesthetic detail, but new research shows it can be the product of intense evolutionary fine-tuning. In snapdragons, subtle shifts in pigment patterning determine how effectively flowers recruit bees—and that difference can influence…...

5+ hour, 15+ min ago  (311+ words) Lead is a highly toxic, long-lived metal that can accumulate in ecosystems and human tissues. Because even trace levels can threaten health, sensitive monitoring in water is essential for environmental protection, public health, and reliable agricultural and trade practices. Yet…...

10+ hour, 40+ min ago  (405+ words) Researchers used AI to create variants of a CRISPR-Cas12-like nuclease, some of which show increased editing activity Artificial intelligence is already great at predicting how proteins fold. And soon, AI might become great at designing new proteins from scratch....

13+ hour, 30+ min ago  (458+ words) Astrobiology Web Our work also introduces LiteratOmics, a new framework that combines literature mining, natural language processing, and AI to transform scientific publications into structured, searchable, and interconnected knowledge. The platform supports researchers, educators, students, and citizen scientists while promoting…...

20+ hour, 42+ min ago  (376+ words) From traffic lights to fashion trends, changing from red to green can signal much more than a shift in color. Now, Hiroshima University researchers have shown that the same is true for perilla. Using genome editing, they transformed red perilla…...

10+ hour, 11+ min ago  (369+ words) In a breakthrough for plant epitranscriptomics, researchers report that Arabidopsis thaliana uses N1-methyladenosine (m1A) to modulate mRNA behavior with base-level precision. m1A is a relatively newly recognized mRNA methylation mark, and until now its distribution and biological impact in plants had remained…...

15+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1226+ words) Martin Picard, director of the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has placed the energetic organelles at the center of his model for health and consciousness. A mitochondrion (orange) contains intricately folded structures, called cristae, that maximize…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago  (157+ words) Nature Reviews Microbiology (2026) Cite this article In this Genome Watch, we explore how the ecological memory of microbiomes shapes transgenerational stress resilience in plants. Liang, S. et al. Climate-influenced ecological memory modulates microbial response to soil moisture. Glob. Change Biol. 31, e70099 (2025). Jobert,…...