Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical ...

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...
IEEE

MixCycle: Unsupervised Speech Separation via Cyclic Mixture Permutation Invariant Training

Abstract: We introduce two unsupervised source separation methods, which involve self-supervised training from single-channel two-source speech mixtures. Our first method, mixture permutation ...

Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment – new research

Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.
eLife

Cardenolide toxin diversity impacts monarch butterfly growth and sequestration

This important study shows that different forms and mixtures of cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially nitrogen- and sulfur-containing types, change how monarch caterpillars eat, grow, ...

24 Surprising Things You Can Clean With Vinegar—Even Your Mattress

Distilled white vinegar is a non-toxic cleaning product that can be used to clean in every room to remove stains, odors, and ...

The worst supermarket fruit and veg for pesticides

Grapes were found to be the worst of all the food groups, with one sample containing the residue of at least 16 different ...