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Scaling up the detection of genome-edited rice lines

A new tool called RiSpy can pick out genome-edited rice lines that public databases miss.

Electron and photon beams drive same gold-forming reaction toward different nanoscale structures

The same chemical reaction makes different gold shapes depending on whether it's watched with

A new bridge for quantum networks: Physicists convert microwaves to light using 2D magnets

A 2D magnet converts microwaves into light, a big step toward quantum computers talking through

Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life

Books build dream versions of real places that can never truly exist on a map.

How a simple game of 20 questions could help make AI fit for the future

A game of 20 Questions could make AI image programs much cheaper to train.

Sixteen new fungus species found hiding in Thailand's flowers

Scientists found 16 brand-new fungus species hiding in flowers across northern Thailand.

A $100 detector can see invisible particles raining down from space

A $100 pocket device lets anyone see invisible cosmic particles raining through our bodies.

Genome assembly of rice stink bug offers new data-informed tool in fight against costly pest

Scientists mapped the tiny rice stink bug's full genome to help protect a food eaten by half the

New livestream brings remote Australian arid zone waterhole to the world

People worldwide can now watch rare Australian wildlife live from a remote desert waterhole.

What the Bayeux tapestry reveals about medieval buildings on both sides of the Channel

The Bayeux Tapestry shows 33 buildings that reveal how medieval towns looked on both sides of the

Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscript—its lost pages have just been rediscovered

Six lost pages of a medieval Catholic bestseller were hiding in an English archive for nearly a

Ultrathin membranes unlock nano-infrared views of biomolecules in water

Scientists can now study single biomolecules in water using a new improved nano-infrared technique.

Pufferfish taste receptor more versatile than a human's, detecting both savory L- and sweet D-amino acids

A fish taste receptor can detect both savory and sweet amino acids — humans can't.

Half-billion-year-old fossils rewrite the origin story of starfish

518-million-year-old fossils show starfish ancestors ate with tentacles, not gills.

Mathematician challenges a 2,000-year-old legend about the Parthenon's optical illusions

A mathematician proved the Parthenon's famous "optical illusions" were never meant to fool anyone.

A 240-million-year-old fossil just changed the dinosaur timeline

A fossil hiding in a museum for 60 years just linked Africa and South America and rewrote the

Chimpanzees give youngsters the tools to learn tricky techniques

Wild chimpanzees in Senegal pass tools to infants, a rare example of animal teaching.

Transparency and trust are the foundations of every successful research partnership, report suggests

Small firms often can't find the right university expert — here's how to fix that.

Learning reorganizes neural activity patterns to help distinguish important smells

Learning rewires the brain's smell map so important odors stand out, scientists discover.

The hidden-state problem just got cheaper: mixed-type ecological models fit in seconds

Ecological models that once took hours now fit in under a minute with a new free R method.