Cadmium (Cd) toxicity poses a severe environmental threat, leading to substantial declines in crop growth and productivity worldwide. Accumulation of proline is recognized as a critical adaptive response in plants facing heavy metal stress. However, the precise mechanisms regulating Cd-induced proline accumulation remain elusive. Here, we discovered that a Cd-induced CCT5 gene in vegetable soybean

Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke has been linked to immune dysregulation underlying multiple health conditions, but data on the long-term effects of these exposures during gestation are lacking. Smoke PM2.5 from wildfires occurring in urban areas is of particular concern because it can carry persistent chemicals within household furniture or soil, as well as polyaromatic

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human, animal, and crop health. AMR can be directly selected for by antibiotics, and indirectly co-selected for by biocides and metals, at environmentally relevant concentrations. Some evidence suggests that non-antibiotic drugs (NADs) can co-select for AMR, but previous work focused on exposing single model bacterial species to predominately high

The rapid escalation of antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria has become a critical global public health threat. Despite the extensive use of antibiotics in medicine, debates on the origins of antibiotic-resistance pathogenic bacterium remain unresolved. In this study, five antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria (S. epidermidis, S. warneri, A. viridans, B. cereus or S. haemolyticus), which

Fifty years ago, a spacecraft designed and built by young Indian scientists redefined what a low-income country could achieve.

In heterogeneous photocatalysis, the dynamics of charge carriers holds particular significance for comprehending the underlying catalytic mechanism and designing highly efficient photocatalysts. The current technological challenge lies in how to maximize the behavior of carriers and enable them to unleash the potential in photocatalytic reaction. Herein, we present a novel Prussian blue analogue (PBA)-derived

BackgroundUrban heat island (UHI), attributed to rapid urbanization, might be a latent modifiable risk factor for human health, yet little is known about whether UHI puts a strain on public mental health. This study aimed to assess the effect of the summer UHI on mental health. MethodsLeveraging 338,363 urban residents from the UK Biobank, this study estimated the associations of summer UHI effect

Evidence on the combined impact of air pollution and lifestyle on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is limited. We employed the Space-Time Extra-Trees model, an ensemble learning method for spatiotemporal data, to estimate the annual average concentrations of five air pollutants from 2017 to 2019. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the associations between air pollutant exposure and

Real-time control (RTC) is an effective method used in urban drainage systems (UDS) for reducing flooding and combined sewer overflows. Recently, RTC based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been proven to have various advantages compared to traditional RTC methods. However, the existing DRL methods solely focus on reducing the total amount of CSO discharge and flooding, ignoring the UDS resilience

An increasing body of evidence indicates that exposure to widespread, environmental and food contaminants such as mycotoxins may cause endocrine disorders and infertility. Deoxynivalenol (DON), which is a toxic secondary metabolite produced by Fusarium fungi, can lead to multiple harmful effects in humans and animals, such as hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, immunotoxicity, gastrointestinal toxicity