12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (447+ words) Dozens of dogs — some only weeks old and others nearly a decade old — were pulled from commercial breeders in southern Missouri in a large-scale surrender that is now giving them a chance at safer, more stable lives. The rescue brought…...

8+ hour, 9+ min ago   (682+ words) Oil flax has quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on the Eurasian steppe, prized both for its omega-3-rich seed oil and for the cellulose-dense bast fiber hidden in its stems....

12+ hour, 20+ min ago   (87+ words) Wheat feeds more of humanity than almost any other crop, and the pressure on it has never been greater. Meeting projected global demand by 2050 will require annual productivity gains of roughly 1.7 percent, with total production expected to rise from about…...

20+ hour, 58+ min ago   (490+ words) Fine-grained wheat variety classification involving a large number of cultivars remains challenging because different varieties often exhibit highly similar morphological and textural characteristics. In this study, a dataset comprising 124 wheat varieties was used to systematically evaluate convolutional and Transformer-based architectures…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (131+ words) A full-sized prototype of the canister that will hold the Gravity reactor has been installed and then retrieved from a borehole using standard equipment already in commercial service in the drilling industry. California-based Deep Fission is developing the Gravity reactor,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (147+ words) The Kansas Wheat Variety Guide 2026 from K-State Research and Extension has now been released for this year. Agronomic characteristics, disease, and pest resistance information are included, as well as profiles that highlight some more common or new varieties for the…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (516+ words) A full-size reactor canister survived a 100-foot descent and retrieval as Deep Fission tests its underground nuclear concept. Deep Fission has successfully lowered a 20-foot reactor canister 100 feet underground and retrieved it using commercial drilling equipment, testing a key part…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (185+ words) Autonomous drones that fly independently through the greenhouse and, with the help of AI, provide insights into crop development. avemoy is set to test and demonstrate this technology at Tomatoworld. Both parties are entering into this partnership to test and…...

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3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (568+ words) A "peculiar" new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, USA, following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years. The newly named species, Wyoteuthis linsterorum, has been identified as a type of…...