A research team indicates that treatments with ethylene and 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP), especially in combination, dramatically inhibit postharvest sprouting, enhance flavor and color, and extend shelf life.

Researchers have developed a transparent solar concentrator that can be directly coated onto architectural glass, enabling colorless and unidirectional solar energy collection. This new design, based on cholesteric liquid crystal films with submicron periodic structures, offers high efficiency, wide-angle operation, and aesthetic compatibility with modern buildings—opening a path toward scalable, building-integrated photovoltaics for carbon emission reduction.

A research team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that harnesses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data to predict wheat yields with exceptional accuracy.

A research team has developed Spotibot, a deep learning–powered application available on both web and mobile platforms, designed to automatically detect and measure Botrytis lesions on rose petals.

A research team introduces the In-Media Plant PET Root Imaging System (IMP²RIS), a novel tool that enables real-time, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in soybean roots grown in soil-like media.

Chichibabin diradicaloids, characterized by narrow band gaps and near-infrared (NIR) absorption, are limited in their practical applications in the biomedical field due to their instability and non-emissive properties. Herein, a symmetry-breaking and donor-modulating strategy yielded the highly stable Chichibabin diradicaloid TT-CzPh, with NIR luminescence (λ_em = 821 nm), 6.4% PLQY, and 87.5% PCE. Assembled into TT-CzPh NPs (82% PCE), it achieved NIR-guided tumor ablation in 4T1 mice, advancing their bioimaging and cancer phototherapy applications.

Scientists in South Korea experimentally demonstrated a single-gate electro-optic metasurface achieving efficient, wide-angle beam switching in the mid-infrared. The device modulates the Fermi level of monolayer graphene to control optical efficiencies across diffraction orders. Inverse design using a genetic algorithm and nonlocal quasinormal mode analysis enabled both high relative and absolute efficiencies with a wide 57° deflection angle. This work simplifies device architecture while retaining high performance, paving the way for practical, tunable optical beam routing applications.