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.

Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their past for longer than previously thought, according to MIT research. The findings could help manufacturers design gels, lotions, or paving materials that last longer and perform more predictably.

When you stream a movie, back up a photo or ask ChatGPT a question, somewhere a data center is working hard — and getting hot. Cooling those facilities already consumes a huge share of their electricity, and nearly half of that energy leaves as low-temperature waste heat that’s simply vented into the air. A new study from Rice University shows how to turn that waste into power.

A powerful new particle detector, sPHENIX, just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early universe. The detector made a key measurement that proves it has the precision to help piece together the primordial properties of quark-gluon plasma.

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.