Scientists and Awards

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (679+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet every harvest season it fights a silent war against two devastating enemies: the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes rice blast, and the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the agent of bacterial blight....

3+ hour, 44+ min ago   (668+ words) The pathological proteins that accumulate in the aging human brain are not amorphous debris. They are highly ordered molecular assemblies, and their precise atomic architecture can determine which neurodegenerative disease a patient develops, how fast it progresses, and how it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (658+ words) The Beckman Scholars Award is given to talented undergraduates engaged in lab-based research in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, and the medical sciences. Each scholar receives a stipend of more than $20,000 to pursue their work over two summers and the academic year…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (262+ words) Pillar One: The Scientific Mindset Pillar Two: Embracing the Void The Alchemy of Not Knowing This requires emotional discipline rarely celebrated in popular descriptions of science. "I proposed this idea" must never become "I am this idea." A scientist, at…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (636+ words) Springer Nature has opened the nomination window for its 2026 Editor of Distinction Awards, the annual program through which the publishing house recognizes the editors and editorial boards whose behind-the-scenes judgment shapes the scientific record....

16+ hour, 19+ min ago   (495+ words) What is believed to be the first genomic study of white sharks in the Western North Atlantic has yielded fascinating results that are helping scientists further understand these apex predators and their patterns. A recent DNA study conducted by OCEARCH…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (486+ words) Passion in Science awardee Kehinde Abereoje witnessed a combined lack of reproductive health education and resources among Nigerian women and girls in underserved communities. She applied her scientific background and founded an evidence-based and peer-led sexual and reproductive health education…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (146+ words) A clear check on AI-made viruses is the limit of existing knowledge about what makes viruses dangerous. Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution. Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (635+ words) A new AI-powered reconstruction method has transformed radio observations into a continuous video, revealing unexpected motion inside a distant black hole jet. For decades, astronomers have relied on Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to study the enormous jets launched by…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (171+ words) journalgazette.net Jerry Brown and his son Atticus, 7, test out the Bernoulli Blower Table Thursday, during a Science Central special members night, ahead of the center’s public reopening on Sept. 12. The event unveiled three new hands-on exhibits and a…...