Los Angeles wildfires, a CRISPR milestone, and a de-extinction controversy are among 2025’s notable events captured in photos ...

On his farm in Dawson County, Nebraska, Don Batie is always looking for ways to grow more corn with fewer chemicals. He’s concerned about the health and environmental impacts of excess nitrogen ...

On Jan. 10, Chinese scientists uploaded the genetic sequence of a novel coronavirus, later named SARS-CoV-2, to an open-access website, GenBank. The virus had been linked to a growing number of ...

Jafarova’s days of 5:00 a.m. treks through Tuscany are over; people now send her moss from all over the world to analyze for ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous substances that do not degrade in the environment and can harm ...

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The 2026 Green and Sustainable Chemistry Summer School will be held July 11–18 in Burlington, Vermont. Applications are open ...

Pasquale Aramo stocks up on sunscreen when he travels outside the US for work. Aramo, vice president of specialty chemicals for the Americas at the personal care ingredient supplier 3V Sigma, is not ...

The name Colin Pitchfork might not be as recognizable as Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer. But for those in the forensic science community, it’s a name that holds weight. Pitchfork was the first ...

As the popularity of electric vehicles starts to grow explosively, so does the pile of spent lithium-ion batteries that once powered those cars. Industry analysts predict that by 2020, China alone ...

Nodule collection vehicle. A nodule collection vehicle is ready to be launched from a mining ship. Credit: Global Sea Mineral Resources Nearly 150 years ago, scientists and sailors set out aboard the ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...