Golden Goose Award, which spotlights silly sounding or odd federal basic research that ultimately benefited society, seek nominations to recognize the 2026 awardees.

This material looks like a rock covered in ice, but under the microscope you would see a spongelike network. This is key to the experiments as the cavities can be filled with specific ions to create ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Vividion Therapeutics have identified chemical compounds that can precisely block the interaction between the major cancer-driving gene RAS, and a key ...

Researchers have created a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by ...

Understanding people’s attitudes to interactions with sharks could help halt the global decline of shark numbers, according ...

Members of our community raised concerns that where they lived was making people sick,” said Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist and associate director for community outreach and engagement ...

Brian Wirth, Nuclear Engineering Department Head at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Psychological factors, like having a positive attitude toward saving energy and believing that what individuals do makes a difference, consistently influence why people save energy at home.

The researchers’ custom near-infrared LED heating system activates SnOx nanoflakes that heat and neutralize cancer cells (green: live cells; red: cells killed by photothermal therapy).

Installing a station on the Glacier de Corbassière, Swiss Alps. ISTA researcher Thomas Shaw looking upward to the Grand Combin.

Cold air flows down on a warm day. Tsanteleina Glacier, northwestern Italy.

The melting Pasterze Glacier, Austria. Drone footage over the glacier. Research on katabatic winds was conducted there in the 1990s.