7+ min ago   (706+ words) Springer Nature has opened the 2026 cycle of its Editor of Distinction Awards, an annual program through which the publisher recognizes journal editors whose work has gone measurably beyond the ordinary demands of the role....

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12+ min ago   (764+ words) Magnetic resonance imaging has long been the gold standard for peering into the human brain, but it has always demanded one precious commodity that many patients simply cannot spare: time....

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18+ min ago   (716+ words) India’s rice research establishment has added a new name to its catalogue of hybrid varieties, with the formal notification of Pusa Jawahar Rice Hybrid 56 in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding....

18+ min ago   (597+ words) The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most repetitive genomes among vertebrates, and yet the detailed architecture of their repetitive DNA has remained poorly explored compared with mammals,…...