Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

Popular communication methods for nonspeaking autistic people have ignited a fierce debate over what counts as evidence of ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously ...

I have long been critical of the World Health Organization's promotion of dubious treatment methods under the banner of "traditional medicine". It now has a global strategy to promote what is calls " ...

As Virginia, Maryland and Delaware face more floods, their elected officials want to use federal dollars to deploy natural ...

A University at Buffalo-led team of researchers has developed a method for producing advanced nanoparticles that could ...

A UCR engineer won a $1.6 million federal grant to improve scientists' ability to interpret brain activity and advance ...

Researchers turned a classic theory of information into a near-perfect Wordle strategy that solves 99% of puzzles.

America’s next major exascale supercomputer already has its first scientific challenges lined up. The Discovery supercomputer is not expected to go online until 2028, but the US Department of Energy ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has partnered with The Nature Conservancy to develop a new tool for funding wetland conservation and ...