Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how ...

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The Clean Air Act “does not provide EPA statutory authority to prescribe motor vehicle emission standards for the purpose of ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is meaningfully reshaping conservation.

Scientists in China have unveiled a breakthrough way to mass-produce powerful cancer-fighting immune cells in the lab. By engineering early-stage stem cells from cord blood—rather than trying to ...

“It’s a pretty exciting time in fungal conservation,” said Allen, mycologist for NatureServe, a hub for biodiversity data ...

Computer scientists Maria Apostolaki, Benjamin Eysenbach, and Yasaman Ghasempour; chemists William Jacobs and Erin Stache; physicist Isobel Ojalvo; and mathematician Bartolomeo Stellato are members of ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal waters.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

In December 2025, Brett Baker led a research cruise to collect microbial genomes off the coast of Uruguay. In this photo, Tyler Smith pilots a remotely operated vehicle collecting shallow coastal ...

An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.