For The Better

More adaptable crops are needed to address global hunger and worsening challenges in food production. Researchers have now developed new genetic blueprints for two types of groundcherry. Their work can help unlock the potential for orphan crops like gr…

New research changes our understanding of seasonal thawing in parts of Antarctica, as scientists have learned that summer thawing occurs nearly a month earlier, and stays thawed for a full two months longer than previously believed.

Researchers have developed and validated a machine learning–based method to predict which patients with early-stage melanoma are most likely to experience a cancer recurrence.

A first-of-its-kind study reveals alarming findings about the level of microplastic pollution on Israel’s beaches.

A study warns that safety flag systems differ even between beaches in close proximity to each other, and that this lack of uniformity may be due to an outdated legal framework and the absence of an agreed system between different organizations. They pr…

Bizarre quantum properties of black holes — including their mind-bending ability to have different masses simultaneously — have been confirmed by physicists.

New research into the drivers of mangrove loss over the past 20 years has revealed that most of the degradation can be attributed to socio-economic and biophysical factors, with mangrove cover increasing in some areas.

Scientists have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in optical communications: optical vortices. By transmitting selective optical vortex modes …