New chemical method makes it easier to select desirable traits in crops

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

“I was curious to establish a baseline for when LLMs are effectively able to solve open math problems compared to where they ...

This new, dead simple prompt technique boosts accuracy on LLMs by up to 76% on non-reasoning tasks

Most modern LLMs are trained as "causal" language models. This means they process text strictly from left to right. When the ...

Open-source robotic system cuts manual cell culture time by 61% while boosting seeding consistency

An automated cell culture system reduces hands-on time and improves seeding consistency in 96-well microplates. The research ...
C&EN

Making a low-cost alternative to platinum catalysts

Platinum has long powered hydrogenation reactions across the chemical industry. But its cost and limited supply have pushed ...
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Sources & Methods

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

Compressed Data Technique Enables Pangenomics at Scale

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information. The ...