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By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

A world in warming, under most circumstances, tipping toward deep cooling does seem counterintuitive; yet, Earth's geological ...

Pharmaceutical Separation Science Session Day two of HPLC 2025 concluded with a session on pharmaceutical separations chaired ...

The Arctic is heating faster than any other region on Earth, and scientists now say a newly identified chain reaction in the ...

Climate change, AI, geopolitical shifts drive a world in flux, where societies, economies, warfare, no longer binary ...

Light that twists as it travels and materials whose internal order is knotted like a pretzel are starting to collide in the ...

New 'zentropy theory' based on quantum mechanics could unlock seemingly impossible electronic devices made with transparent ...

Microplastics in rivers, lakes, and oceans aren’t just drifting debris—they’re constantly leaking invisible clouds of ...

A new catalyst design could transform how acetaldehyde is made from renewable bioethanol. Researchers found that a carefully ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Time really does fly. And when you look back at 2025, we’re sure you’ve collected a mix of moments: some joyful, some ...