Selenium is an element with a dual nature; it is a necessary micronutrient for humans and animals but becomes toxic at high concentrations. Its accumulation in water sources, resulting from both ...

An Australian mining company has launched plans to dig for rare earth elements right next to California's Joshua Tree National Park, alarming environmentalists who fear it will damage the local ...

Cobalt has long been considered a textbook ferromagnet, but new experiments reveal a hidden network of topological electronic states woven into its structure. Credit: Stock A well-known magnetic metal ...

Lake Koocanusa has long been the center of a fight between environmental groups and industry backers over the leaching of selenium into the Elk River in British Columbia. The Montana Environmental ...

A new family of Android click-fraud trojans leverages TensorFlow machine learning models to automatically detect and interact with specific advertisement elements. The mechanism relies on visual ...

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), which includes Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, poses a substantial global health burden due to its strong environmental influences. Among environmental ...

Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China ...

Scientists show that nanoscale selenium can reduce fertilizer use by 30%, improve rice nutrition, and lower greenhouse gases. (Nanowerk News) The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 ...

Frailty is associated with increased mortality risk among middle-aged and older adults. Selenium, a trace element with antioxidant properties, may play a role in reducing mortality by modulating ...