21+ hour, 38+ min ago   (76+ words) In the mining towns scattered across South Africa’s West Rand, a quiet but consequential question sits at the intersection of environmental health and everyday life: how much time do residents actually spend near the vast dumps of crushed rock and…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (808+ words) Deep beneath the farmlands of northwestern Tanzania, radiation has always been there. It comes from uranium, thorium, and potassium locked into the Archean rocks of the Lake Victoria goldfields, the same geological formations that made the region one of Africa’s…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (59+ words) Every year, kiwifruit orchards around the world generate enormous quantities of pruned branches, most of which are burned, discarded, or otherwise treated as valueless agricultural waste. A new study published in Food Chemistry: X suggests that these woody residues may…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (714+ words) In a discovery that could reshape how one of the world’s most treasured medicinal orchids is propagated and conserved, researchers at the University of Kerala have isolated and characterized a fungal endophyte living quietly inside the tissues of Vanda tessellata,…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (906+ words) Bioengineer.org...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) Forensic scientists and clinicians who work with child sexual abuse cases have long operated under a widely cited rule of thumb: biological evidence recovered from a victim’s body becomes difficult, if not impossible, to detect beyond roughly 72 hours after the…...