A new field-ready computer-vision pipeline can pinpoint when individual rice panicles begin and peak flowering, a brief and highly heat-sensitive window that strongly influences grain set and yield. 

- Employs a nickel oxide catalyst to eliminate lithium ions, a primary cause of shortened perovskite solar cell lifespan

- Achieves 95% efficiency retention after 1,000 h at elevated temperatures and high humidity, demonstrating excellent durability

Soybean root nodules are central to biological nitrogen fixation, but measuring nodule number and weight usually requires destructive harvesting. 

When it comes to democratic backsliding, our federalist system is a two-way street, according to new research led by University of Utah political scientist Michael Dichio, who developed a framework for identifying circumstances where federalism undermines and where it sustains democracy.

A research team found that aged polyamide microplastics accelerated the breakdown of the pharmaceutical carbamazepine in three ultraviolet-based wastewater treatments.

The rapid growth of LLMs has transformed applications from machine translation to text generation. However, their size is a major barrier. For example, some models have hundreds of billions of parameters, demanding significant computational and memory resources that are unavailable in resource-constrained environments like smartphones or personal computers. To address this, researchers use several model compression techniques such as pruning and quantization. While these methods are effective individually, there has been little guidance on how they can be combined for maximum impact until now.

The Chinese government has clearly proposed advancing people-centered new-type urbanization, actively and steadily promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and accelerating the construction of a clean energy system.