Plant roots are the hidden engines of crop survival, and enhancing their growth is key to resisting environmental stress. 

Children from affluent families are more likely to grow up to occupy formal leadership positions by their mid-20s than those from families facing adversity, a new Concordia-led study shows.

However, the pathways to professional success for each group are significantly different. Affluent children are more likely to benefit from job opportunities through family or friendship connections. They can also build up their careers thanks to a persistent level of support throughout their lives.

Children in adverse circumstances often lack those support structures. More importantly, they encounter additional barriers that can limit their professional opportunities, such as chronic stress and limited access to developmental resources.  

A research team has demonstrated how advanced drone-based thermal imaging can be used to more accurately measure canopy temperature (CT) in wheat fields by disentangling experimental signals from environmental and technical noise.

When deprived of sugar, plant cells must rapidly adjust to preserve energy and survive.

A research team has unveiled a non-destructive, highly accurate approach for determining the optimal timing of embryo rescue sampling.

Resource recovery for the preparation of high-value-added products represents a promising strategy for reducing pollution and carbon emissions. High-value-added MOFs can be synthesized by adding organic ligands to stainless steel pickling wastewater, which can solve the discharge of hazardous waste and is undoubtedly an important embodiment of the 3Rs principle (reduce, reuse, recycle). By this method, 88.98% cost and 94.14% of energy consumption can be saved relative to traditional synthesis method. Moreover, the obtained materials achieved excellent removal efficiency of refractory organic pollutants by modification. This work not only provides a new idea for the recycling of industrial wastewater, but also lays the foundation for the low-cost and large-scale production of environmentally functional materials, which realizes the dual goals of pollution control and resource recovery.

As the world transitions to clean energy, hydrogen produced via water electrolysis offers a sustainable solution. However, sluggish reaction kinetics and catalyst instability under alkaline conditions hinder large-scale adoption. A breakthrough by researchers at China University of Petroleum, Beijing, introduces a nitrogen-doped carbon (NC)-enhanced homologous heterojunction (Ni₃S₂-MoS₂/NC) that overcomes these limitations. By optimizing the built-in electric field (BEF) strength, the catalyst achieves record-low overpotentials and long-term stability in alkaline environments. This work demonstrates how strategic electronic engineering can unlock the full potential of heterostructures for green hydrogen production.

A research team introduces Plant-MAE, a self-supervised learning framework designed to automate 3D segmentation of plant organs from point cloud data.