Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it’s going to occur, you might like this project from [Mohammad ...

Using optogenetics, researchers have detected a new acid sensor in plant cells that is addressing a cell-internal calcium store. When plants are infected by pathogens, suffer from a lack of water or ...

Sucrose monolaurate, when added as a stabilizer to the electrode, formed protective hexagonal and laminar nanostructures around lactate oxidase, shielding it from sweat and maintaining enzyme activity ...

Fluorescent boronic acid-based sensors exploit the reversible covalent interaction between boronic acid moieties and vicinal diols, a structural motif ubiquitous in saccharides. Upon formation of a ...

If plants are flooded, they lack oxygen and their cells over-acidify. A sensor protein detects this and triggers a stress response. Climate change is causing increased flooding and prolonged ...