Maintaining an appropriate fruit load is essential for balancing yield and quality in pear production, yet growers still rely largely on experience when deciding how much fruit to thin. 

A new sensing framework using drone and satellite imagery can predict cotton height, biomass and lint yield with high accuracy, offering growers a scalable way to monitor crop performance in near real time. 

A new multi-scale deep-learning framework combines high-frequency medium-resolution drone imagery with sparse high-resolution images to identify rice growth stages across hundreds of genetically diverse varieties. 

Drug-resistant epilepsy types, such as mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), are surgically managed through anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL). However, a significant proportion of patients with MTLE do not qualify for ATL owing to the risk of severe side effects, warranting the need for alternatives. Now, Mexican researchers have examined the therapeutic efficacy of non-invasive linear accelerator (LINAC)-based radiosurgery in MTLE. LINAC-based radiosurgery effectively decreased epilepsy and aura frequency but was associated with several side effects.

Solid–solid interfaces and surfaces govern material properties but are hard to resolve in 3D. Researchers at Peking University present an integrated framework for atomic-resolution electron tomography: a multi-metric evaluation strategy, the ZhouTomo automated acquisition software, and high-tilt in situ heating and cryogenic holders. The work outlines a pathway toward faster, reproducible and dynamic 3D atomic characterization of buried interfaces.

Fine-scale eddies (FEs) serve as critical drivers for vertical transport that helps sustain primary production, but their small scales hindered global observation prior to the SWOT mission. Combining SWOT with multi-platform datasets, researchers reveal that FEs are ubiquitous and an order of magnitude more abundant than mesoscale eddies. In contrast to mesoscale eddies, fine-scale cyclones are systematically ~10% stronger than anticyclones. Furthermore, positive chlorophyll anomalies from cyclonic FEs exceed the negative anomalies of anticyclonic FEs twofold, producing a consistent net positive effect on surface chlorophyll globally, which arises from the combined effect of horizontal and vertical motions of FEs. This study provides the first observational benchmark for FEs, constraining future models and reducing longstanding uncertainties.