If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published October 23^rd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Anna Marcuzzi of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and colleagues.

The ocean’s smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate the Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. However, a new review published this week in Science by an international team led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain, finds that these organisms, coccolithophores, foraminifers, and pteropods, are oversimplified in the climate models used to predict our planet’s future. 

A recently published Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) research article indicates that fall-applied residual herbicides are among the best available options to use for glyphosate-resistant (GR) Italian ryegrass control. The article is among several newly published articles found online in the WSSA  Weed Technology journal.

From creating flexible gadgets to better medicines, the art of bending crystals is reshaping technology and health, and at the University of Houston a crystals expert makes it look almost like a magic trick. 

Scientists have developed a new way to control light using a silicon metasurface and a genetic algorithm. This method allows real-time shaping of light patterns without needing multiple complex setups. It could improve optical technologies for imaging, computing, and more.