Ciencias de la vida

Scientists propose a radical new theory for how life began on Earth

10/06/2026 - Researchers propose that tiny mineral nanoparticles may have been the hidden engines that transformed Earth’s early chemistry into the first building blocks of life. By acting as natural catalysts...

Annotation-Informed Block-Sparse Bayesian Modeling for cis-Expression Prediction

- Genotype-based cis-expression prediction depends on accurately modeling local regulatory architecture. We present block-sparse Bayesian sparse linear mixed model (bsBSLMM), an extension of Bayesian...

Adaptive Physics Transformer with Fused Global-Local Attention for Subsurface Energy Systems

- The Earth's subsurface is a cornerstone of modern society, providing essential energy resources like hydrocarbons, geothermal, and minerals while serving as the primary reservoir for $CO_2$...

SubsurfaceGen: Procedural Generation of Field-Scale Earth Models and Seismic Data

- Full waveform inversion (FWI) is the gold standard for subsurface imaging, with applications from carbon sequestration to energy and mineral exploration to earthquake hazard assessment. Machine...

The ocean's health may depend on a tiny microbe inside fish

31/05/2026 - A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s oceans. Scientists found evidence that bacteria in the guts of marine...

NASA’s Webb telescope discovers a planet where rock clouds vanish every night

27/05/2026 - A giant planet nearly 700 light-years away has a bizarre daily weather cycle where mineral clouds appear every morning and vanish by nightfall. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers...

Contested Temporalities in Critical Minerals and Resource Extraction for Electric Vehicles

- The global push for electric vehicles (EVs) has sharply increased demand for critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium, creating a tension between rapid industrial growth and long-term...

Strategic Stalemates: The Paradox of Export Controls in the U.S.-China AI Race

- Export control is a policy and legal tool to protect national interests by regulating exports of sensitive goods and technology to foreign nations. It has become central to U.S.-China tech rivalry,...

A Practical Noise2Noise Denoising Pipeline for High-Throughput Raman Spectroscopy

- A lightweight and reproducible denoising pipeline for high-throughput Raman spectroscopy is presented. The approach relies on a one-dimensional convolutional autoencoder trained using a Noise2Noise...

A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa

12/05/2026 - Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth’s mantle, a sign of a rupture in the tectonic plates and the possible...

LithoBench: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Remote-Sensing Lithology Interpretation

- Remote sensing lithology interpretation is fundamental to geological surveys, mineral exploration, and regional geological mapping. Unlike general land-cover recognition, lithology interpretation is...

A Brain-Inspired Deep Separation Network for Single Channel Raman Spectra Unmixing

- Raman spectra obtained in real world applications are often a noisy combination of several spectra of various substances in a tested sample. Unmixing such spectra into individual components...

Opportunistic Bone-Loss Screening from Routine Knee Radiographs Using a Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework with Sensitivity-Constrained Threshold Optimization

- Background: Osteoporosis and osteopenia are often undiagnosed until fragility fractures occur. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the reference standard for bone mineral density (BMD)...

Album: executable building blocks for scientific imaging routines, from sharing to LLM-assisted orchestration

- Open-source scientific software is a major driver of scientific progress, yet its development and reuse remain difficult in collaborative settings. Researchers repeatedly face four recurring...

After 200 years scientists finally crack the “dolomite problem”

20/04/2026 - After two centuries of failed attempts, scientists have finally grown dolomite in the lab, cracking a long-standing geological puzzle. They discovered that the mineral’s growth stalls because of...

Environmental Footprint of GenAI Research: Insights from the Moshi Foundation Model

- New multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) are continuously being trained and deployed, following rapid development cycles. This generative AI frenzy is driving steady increases in energy...

Global monitoring of methane point sources using deep learning on hyperspectral radiance measurements from EMIT

- Anthropogenic methane (CH4) point sources drive near-term climate forcing, safety hazards, and system inefficiencies. Space-based imaging spectroscopy is emerging as a tool for identifying emissions...

Three-dimensional inversion of gravity data using implicit neural representations and scientific machine learning

- Inversion of gravity data is an important method for investigating subsurface density variations relevant to mineral exploration, geothermal assessment, carbon storage, natural hydrogen, groundwater...

Electrochemically recovered struvite matches conventional fertilizers in soil nutrient supply

16/03/2026 - Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for agriculture, yet global reliance on finite phosphorite reserves raises concerns about long‐term food and nutrient security. Struvite...

Soil acidity stress: A faba bean (Vicia faba L.) cultivation challenge in Ethiopia, mitigation, and future perspectives

11/03/2026 - ABSTRACTSoil acidity is among the most important abiotic stresses globally constraining agricultural land and crop productivity. Globally, about 30%–40% of total arable land is under the influence...

Evaluating the effects of industrial hemp cultivation on soil quality in Florida

15/10/2025 - Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) has garnered increasing attention in the United States for its environmental and economic potential, yet its effects on mineral soil health remain largely...