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Tiny atomic tweak makes plastic-eating enzymes more powerful

From war to weather, Australian farmers are planting spring crops in an uncertain world

New Zealand will be 'super‑aged' within a decade. Are our cities ready?

Stacked 2D materials reveal room-temperature multiferroicity and voltage-controlled magnetism

As AI reshapes jobs and workers change industries, employers need to be more flexible too

Are bots changing how people talk? Language in the age of AI

New immigration enforcement policy raises safety concerns for domestic violence survivors

Astronomy's decades-long quest to understand cosmic topology

Canadian courts take police misconduct seriously, but researchers say sentencing alone can't fix a broken system

Facing the megadrought: Researchers study underground ice reservoirs in the American West

Humans or AI? Who or what can scam you more effectively?

Experts offer advice in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, social media, misinformation

Early heat waves hit wheat yields hardest but boost resilience to subsequent heat waves

Could expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal make Americans less safe?

Baby orangutans in India expose 'frightening' scale of trafficking

Bolivia's tilcayo tiger cat becomes first new wildcat species in 100 years

Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed

In hottest summer on record, 2 in 3 Americans say climate change is increasing heat-related illnesses

When prepping for disaster, don't forget to pack your teddy bear

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round in Norway's fully automated farm

Museums on prescription: How cultural activities are becoming crucial to the public health debate

Toxic algae can pose a hidden danger to dogs swimming in freshwater

From toothbrushes to aerospace: Graphene research advances fibers that conduct heat efficiently

Europe's earliest glacier loss day in years signals a reckoning for the Alps

Fossil plankton shells reveal reduced nitrogen fixation in warmer oceans 3 million years ago

Circular economy pilot projects show hotels can reduce waste and costs

A finely tuned mess—how disorder can make networks more stable

Developing new asymmetric catalytic reactions for the synthesis of complex molecules

Report on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up

Ubiquitin marks abnormal glycogen for destruction to protect the brain, study finds

Scaling up the detection of genome-edited rice lines

Chemists overturn 40-year assumption about a key class of superconductors

New krypton-88 data narrow a key gap in stellar strontium models

Transfer learning corrects alloy calculations to predict unexplored materials

Motivational traits may help explain why some people report greater well-being

Newfound fungal nutrient-sensing mechanism could advance biofuels and disease control

Climate change contributing to permafrost thawing and glacial thinning

Why global wind energy may stay steady even as storm tracks shift poleward

Laser shocks turn plastic into ultra-small, high-purity nanodiamonds

Trump administration makes major cuts to endangered species protections

Electron and photon beams drive same gold-forming reaction toward different nanoscale structures

Microfluidic device simulates human tissue and offers an alternative to animal testing

New bioinformatics tools help identify pathogenic variants in the genome

Identifying old-growth forests in Northern Europe requires common scientific criteria

A new rulebook for designing stable dilute alloy catalysts

Close-up images show defects locking electrons into stable Wigner solids

How accurately can we measure the ocean's deepest point?

This sponge has holes. Some find that truly disgusting

Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor

A new bridge for quantum networks: Physicists convert microwaves to light using 2D magnets