As climate change intensifies drought stress and threatens agricultural productivity, improving crop resilience has become increasingly important. Now, researchers from Chonnam National University have identified OsFeSOD3, a rice gene that coordinates chloroplast development and protection against stress-induced reactive oxygen species. Rice plants overexpressing OsFeSOD3 produced 33–42% higher grain yields under drought conditions across two growing seasons. This discovery offers a promising strategy for developing climate-resilient, high-yield crops worldwide.

Researchers demonstrate a giant insulator-to-metal transition and room-temperature superparamagnetism by controlling defect reconstruction and nickel nanoparticle formation in perovskite oxide thin films.

Research by a PhD student at the University of Sydney shows how plate tectonics offers framework for finding copper, zinc and lead deposits.