An 'electrical' circadian clock balances growth between shoots and roots

• Plants don’t just respond to light and water, they also run on an internal daily timekeeper known as the circadian clock. • Researchers have now discovered that the plant circadi

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 104 words

Longer roots for drought? How an edited protein could reshape crop resilience

• What’s the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? • Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it-literally. • Researchers in

Science · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
From roots to reach: Network resilience in natural disasters

From roots to reach: Network resilience in natural disasters

• Disasters rarely announce themselves through collapsed buildings alone. • They are also felt through absence, the sudden silence that follows when communication networks fail. •