The Land Institute and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have assembled the first chromosome-scale, haplotype-phased genomes for Silphium integrifolium (rosinweed, silflower) and Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant, silphie). The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. This landmark research promises to expand and accelerate the development of more climate-resilient, sustainable perennial crops for food, fiber, forage, and medicines.

Traditional field research combined with new technology has revealed a secret to the survival of juvenile salmon as they form in their eggs, especially in low-water years when many do not survive, new research from NOAA Fisheries and the University of California, Davis shows.

Optical fibres carry the global internet because light travels through them with extremely low loss. Researchers at Caltech and the University of Southampton have now adapted flame hydrolysis deposition, a process widely used in optical-fibre manufacturing, to photonic chips. The resulting high-germania-doped microresonators reach ultrahigh Q from telecom to violet wavelengths, opening a scalable route toward fibre-like loss, low-noise lasers, frequency combs and precision photonic systems.