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Is aquaculture a carbon source or carbon sink?

Global aquaculture's GHG emissions are mainly driven by feed production, energy consumption, and biogeochemical processes. Low-carbon transformation is feasible through optimized farming practices, renewable energy, and industry collaboration.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 29, 2026

Can rhizobacterial metabolites enhance plant drought tolerance?

Research on Rhizobacterial metabolites reveals that proline is a crucial osmoprotectant helping plants regulate osmotic pressure under drought conditions. PGPR strains improve lettuce plant survival rates and fresh weight recovery after drought stress, providing a scientific basis for developing high-efficiency microbial inoculants.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 29, 2026

Construction industry urged to shift from zero-tolerance to embrace action errors for learning

A new perspective paper calls on construction organizations to adopt an error management approach that treats unintentional action errors as valuable for organizational learning and innovation. Action errors can be categorized into individual, team, and organizational levels, with distinct causes and implications. Embracing action erro...

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalEngineering·DateApr 27, 2026

Drip-irrigated halotolerant PGPB boost jujube yield and quality in saline soils by reshaping soil bacterial communities

Field experiments in China demonstrate that applying halotolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria via drip irrigation can alleviate soil salinity stress, enhance jujube productivity and fruit quality. Drip-applied PGPB treatments also modified bacterial metabolic functions and reshaped the rhizosphere bacterial community.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalEngineering·DateApr 25, 2026

New tool GFAKaleidos for computing and comparing pangenome graph statistics

GFAKaleidos offers a unified framework for analyzing directed, bidirected, and biedged graphs, enabling in-depth examination of vertices, edges, and subgraphs. The tool provides intuitive visualizations and flexible deployment options, making it accessible to both beginners and experts in the genomics research community.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

A survey on 3D editing based on NeRF and 3DGS

A survey on NeRF and 3DGS-based 3D editing provides a systematic review of latest techniques, outlining key advancements, challenges, and future research directions. These radiance field-based methods offer high-fidelity solutions for 3D scene representation and editing.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

ProbsCut: enhancing adversarial robustness via global probability constraints

A new method called ProbsCut improves adversarial robustness by balancing accuracy and robustness through a variance-bias decomposition of generalization error. The proposed approach combines local loss with global loss, aligning the probability vectors of legitimate examples and their adversarial counterparts.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

Leveraging auxiliary-tasks for height and weight estimation with pose-disentanglement

A new research method leverages auxiliary tasks and pose disentanglement to improve body height and weight estimation from a single non-frontal face image. The proposed method utilizes gender and age estimation as auxiliary tasks to enhance primary task performance, demonstrating superior results on small- and large-pose datasets.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

Related-key boomerang attacks on two larger variants of HALFLOOP

A research team has proposed powerful related-key boomerang attacks on two larger variants of HALFLOOP, highlighting urgent concerns about the design of cryptographic standards. The attacks significantly improve time complexity and achieve breakthroughs in key recovery, underscoring the need for stronger key schedule algorithms.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

Scalable batch verification of ECDSA for blockchain using IVC

A research team presents a general approach to batch verification of arbitrary signatures on blockchain, leveraging IVC to enhance scalability and reduce memory consumption. The proposed scheme supports an arbitrary number of signature verifications and offers significant speedups for both provers and verifiers.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalFrontiers of Computer Science·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 24, 2026

Phase separation of DUX family proteins drives totipotent-like state via 3D genome reorganization and retrotransposon activation

The study reveals that DUX family proteins undergo liquid-liquid phase separation to drive the transition to a totipotent-like state. This process is mediated by dynamic nuclear condensates, which act as specialized transcriptional hubs to activate totipotency-specific genes and retrotransposons.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalProtein & Cell·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 23, 2026

Chuxia Deng and colleagues reveal a novel role of BRCA1 in dsRNA mediated innate immune response and its contribution to PARP inhibitor resistance in BRCA1 deficient breast cancer cells via IRF3 repression

Researchers found that BRCA1 regulates innate immune signaling through IRF3, which is downregulated in BRCA1 deficient cells, leading to reduced drug sensitivity and PARPi resistance. Combining poly(I:C) with PARPi improves antitumor efficacy in vivo.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalProtein & Cell·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 23, 2026

Targeting the α7 nAChR-PARP1 Axis: a novel therapeutic strategy for Parkinson's disease

Researchers investigated the α7 nAChR-PARP1 axis as a therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease. The study found that activating α7 nAChRs suppresses PARP1 activity, reducing neurotoxicity and improving motor function in mouse models. This discovery provides a scientific foundation for developing novel therapies targeting this axis.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalProtein & Cell·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 22, 2026

From single-cell fate divergence to extracellular protease-mediated terminal events: Redefining necrotic cell death

Researchers reveal distinct fates for individual cells under the same pyroptosis-inducing conditions, highlighting heterogeneity in cell death decisions. Extracellular protease-mediated proteolytic cleavages drive nuclear envelope disruption and genomic DNA degradation, promoting efficient phagocytic clearance of necrotic cell remnants.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalVita·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 15, 2026

Revisiting the strain of calorie restriction in mice

A new Perspective revisits the controversy over calorie restriction's impact on mouse lifespan, arguing that genetic background may not be a key driver of life-shortening effects. The authors suggest that experimental design and sample size are more likely to cause heterogeneity in results.

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalLife Metabolism·TypeExperimental study·DateApr 14, 2026

Ammonia-fueled engines achieve high substitution rate with pilot-ignition reactivity-stratification combustion

Researchers developed a pilot-ignition reactivity-stratification combustion strategy for ammonia-fueled compression ignition engines, achieving high ammonia energy fraction while maintaining efficient combustion and reduced emissions. The study found that optimizing diesel injection timing and pre-injection diesel mass can significantl...

SourceHigher Education Press·JournalEngineering·DateApr 14, 2026