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20-Oct-2025

New study reveals how Europe can cut food system emissions and meet sustainability goals

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University

A new study led by Dr. Mohammad Fazle Rabbi at the University of Debrecen uncovers how targeted reforms in Europe’s food systems could significantly reduce carbon emissions and accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG‑12), which promotes responsible consumption and production.

Journal: Carbon Research

20-Oct-2025

Most of Wine Country’s agricultural workers have been exposed to wildfires, new survey finds

University of California - Berkeley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sonoma County is known for its rolling fields and famed vineyards, making the region a pillar in California’s wine industry. But a sweeping new survey from UC Berkeley has found that approximately 75% of agricultural workers there have worked during wildfires since 2017, raising questions about worker safety and a program that could further expose workers during wildfire evacuations.

20-Oct-2025

Disrupting cancer’s secret hubs: A new way to halt tumor growth

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows how RNA — normally just a messenger — gets hijacked to build liquid-like “droplet hubs” in the nucleus of cells. These hubs act as command centers, switching on growth-promoting genes. But the research team at Texas A&M University didn’t stop at observing this; they created a molecular switch to dissolve the hubs on demand, cutting off the cancer’s growth at its source.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, American Cancer Society, Alkek Early Career Fellowship

20-Oct-2025

How origami robots with magnetic muscles could make medicine delivery less invasive and more effective

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study used co-extrusion to create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which could be applied to origami-shaped soft robots. This allowed researchers to move and control the robots using external magnetic fields without compromising the robots' movement or surface area. These robots could be used to deliver medicine inside the body, or to cross terrain.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

20-Oct-2025

Commercially important fish found congregating at methane seep off Chile

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red cusk-eels, fish prized in Chilean seafood markets and celebrated in a poem by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, embedded in a bushy thicket of tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of central Chile. This is the first time this commercially important species has been documented using methane seeps as habitat.

Journal: Ecology

20-Oct-2025

Pottery-inspired method stencils nanoparticles for building advanced materials

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In science and engineering, impressive technical feats sometimes draw on the arts—such is the case for a new study in Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

20-Oct-2025

AI-generated content triple threat for Reddit moderators

Cornell University
Reports and Proceedings

Reddit bills itself as “the most human place on the internet,” but the proliferation of artificial intelligence-generated content is threatening to squeeze some of the humanity out of the news-sharing forum, according to new Cornell University research.