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18-Dec-2025
Plastic in our plates: How microplastics invade plants and threaten global food security
Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Plants are quietly absorbing microplastics from soil and air, and those particles can work their way into our food and ecosystems, according to a new review by researchers at Nankai University in China. The study pulls together the latest evidence to show how plastic fragments and fibers enter plants through roots and leaves, how they travel and accumulate inside tissues, and what this means for crop health, soil microbes, and global food security.
18-Dec-2025
Science based energy choices: New perspective urges balanced path for prosperity, climate, and the environment
Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new perspective published in the inaugural issue of the journal Energy and Environment Nexus argues that the global conversation on climate, energy, and development must return to scientific first principles and the realities of human welfare. Drawing on more than four decades of work in thermodynamics, combustion, and energy systems, Professor Dongke Zhang calls for a science based approach to balancing economic growth, social well being, and ecological sustainability.
18-Dec-2025
Turning livestock waste into clean water: Animal manure biochar emerges as a low cost tool to remove toxic pollutants from wastewater
Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Animal manure is not just a waste problem anymore. A new scientific review shows that when livestock manure is turned into biochar through controlled heating, it can become a powerful, low cost material for cleaning toxic pollutants from wastewater.
18-Dec-2025
AI-powered UAV system uncovers new cotton defoliation gene for cleaner mechanical harvesting
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of SciencePeer-Reviewed Publication
A research team presents a high-throughput phenotyping framework that integrates UAV-based multispectral imaging, leaf area index (LAI) measurements, and deep learning algorithms to accurately quantify defoliation at three biological levels.
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- Plant Phenomics
18-Dec-2025
New edge-powered vision model transforms safe, high-throughput screening of Aspergillus-infected seeds
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science
A research team introduces Edge CV, an edge computing-based computer vision system designed for rapid, objective, and high-throughput quantification of Aspergillus flavus infection in crop seeds.
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- Plant Phenomics
18-Dec-2025
Deep-learning 3D scanner captures rice seedlings in ultra-high detail for smarter cold-region farming
Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of SciencePeer-Reviewed Publication
A research team has developed a low-cost, high-precision 3D reconstruction system capable of scanning densely planted rice seedlings and extracting key growth traits nondestructively.
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- Plant Phenomics
18-Dec-2025
A fast and high-precision satellite-ground synchronization technology in satellite beam hopping communication
Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
With the advancement of Internet applications, the global demand for broadband satellite communication services is incessantly escalating. Furthermore, there exists an exponential surge in the requisition for the capacity of satellite communication systems. In response to this evolving demand, the domain of satellite communication technology is progressively evolving toward the realm of high-throughput satellite (HTS) communication systems. The typical technical characteristics of HTS are: (a) the satellite adopts multibeam technology for beam overlapping coverage of the service area, which improves the quality of the wireless link while realizing the spatial dimension segmentation; (b) based on this, the system adopts multiple frequency multiplexing to improve the communication capacity of a single satellite; (c) the gateway station is tightly coupled with the user beam clusters are tightly coupled to complete 2-hop communication, which makes multiple gateway stations share the communication resources of the same satellite, forming a spatial isolation of the gateway stations, and once again realizing the frequency multiplexing of the gateway station links. A key requirement for future multibeam broadband satellite communication systems is the ability to flexibly adjust beam capacity according to changes in business distribution, in order to meet time-varying business requirements. Beam hopping technology provides an efficient solution to achieve the efficient use of frequency resources and power resources. At the same time, the use of beam hopping makes the beam hopping of satellite payload need to match the business signals of ground signal stations, bringing about the need for synchronization of beam hopping between satellite and ground.
18-Dec-2025
Anti-diabetic drugs and their surprising impact on cancer progression
West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
This research delves into the association between anti-diabetic medications and cancer, exploring mechanisms beyond just glycemic control and body weight management.
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- Precision Clinical Medicine
18-Dec-2025
A first global consensus statement on short bouts of accumulated exercise
Journal of Sport and Health ScienceIn a landmark study from the Journal of Sport and Health Science, an international team of researchers has gathered evidence from 27 reviews and 135 studies to provide a first global consensus on the definition and classification of short bouts of accumulated exercise. They expect its implementation to empower populations to avoid sedentary behavior, such as prolonged sitting, and move increasingly often, promoting improvements in public health.
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- Journal of Sport and Health Science