Understanding Merkle Roots in Cryptocurrency: Basics and Function

Discover how Merkle roots ensure data integrity in blockchain transactions and reduce verification time. Learn their role in ...

Visualizing how a plant's leaves, stem and roots mutually communicate under environmental stress in real time

How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks ...
University of Delaware

Protecting turfgrass from fungal foes

In the paper, the research team showed that when they tested whether soil treated with UD1022 would be enough to prime turfgrass plants’ innate defense response to resist dollar spot infection — the ...
Labroots

Estrogen's Effects Rely on Changes in DNA Structure

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many cellular and bodily functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes. Scientists have now learned more about how estrogen ...
The Marshall Project

Finding the Racist Roots of Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System

When I started working for Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services in January 2023, I already had a deep knowledge of the agency’s past. I had previously researched and written about its Civil ...
Columbus Dispatch

Ohio's tax structure is antiquated. That's the root of the property tax problem

Michael Stinziano is Franklin County auditor. Re "Property taxes based on home value," Oct. 8: I appreciate Thomas Severns’ concern about rising property taxes but let’s put the blame where it lies: a ...
Yahoo

Ohio's tax structure is antiquated. That's the root of the property tax problem

Re "Property taxes based on home value," Oct. 8: I appreciate Thomas Severns’ concern about rising property taxes but let’s put the blame where it lies: a hodgepodge of state tax laws appended over ...
TechCrunch

Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots

In the latest bid by a Silicon Valley defense firm to assert its own solution for the Army’s mixed-reality ambitions, Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled “EagleEye,” a helmeted computing system that ...
American Farm Bureau Federation

Small Family Farms, The Roots of American Agriculture

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Wildfire update, 11 a.m. Sunday: Fire managers develop structure protection plan in 3 Tobacco Root creek drainages

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Fire managers are developing a Structure Protection Plan for the Noble, Wisconsin and Indian ...
PC Gamer

The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a ...

BioShock's Big Daddy is one of gaming's most iconic enemy designs. The drillbit-wielding, diving-helmet wearing protectors of Rapture are synonymous with Irrational's classic shooter, to the point ...