Since its founding, Quanta Magazine has sought to illuminate the pursuit of knowledge about the basic mechanics of the natural world. Today, the Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine continues this mission with “How We Came To Know Earth,” a nine-story chronicle of the modern understanding of fundamental climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from the math of tipping points to the audacity of climate models.

By combining AI with molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new tool to more accurately predict how plants and helpful microbes communicate and form partnerships at the most fundamental level.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has been conducting digital standardization research and development since 2020 in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea, Korea National University of Cultural Heritage, Chung-Ang University, LiST Co., Ltd., and the Technology Research Institute for Culture & Heritage to secure technological sovereignty in the digital field of cultural heritage in the era of AI.

The Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping lead a national effort to transform how scientists access and use biodiversity data by digitizing tens of thousands of mammal specimens from its Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections.

The work is part of the Ranges Digitization Network, a consortium of 23 natural history collections across the U.S. dedicated to digitizing, standardizing and sharing trait data for terrestrial mammals.

Long before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV watching detective shows.

There have been countless television shows dedicated to detectives who use forensic science to solve crimes. For Tomberlin, it was “Quincy, M.E.” – a forensic pathologist who always caught clues that police detectives missed, that sparked his interest and imagination.  

The centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August, TKMS, Wärtsilä, Steerprop and Aker Arctic had inked the contracts for the entire propulsion unit: rudder propellers, engines and exhaust gas aftertreatment system. Many of the components are genuine market innovations with which the Alfred Wegener Institute and TKMS are setting new standards in research navigation.

Researchers in the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center’s Leukemia and Drug Development Lab are working to make blood cancer a manageable illness and bring new treatments to patients more efficiently than ever before.

A research team led by Dr. Jang Sung-roc at the Electrophysics Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a ‘tailored pulsed power modulator for bias’, which can be applied in ultra-precision semiconductor processing.

University of Texas at Dallas scientists are working to limit the lifespan of potentially hazardous forever chemicals by developing new technologies to remove them quickly and efficiently from the environment. Dr. Mario Wriedt, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is investigating the use of metal-organic frameworks to physically bind to and remove perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated sites, including water resources.

In celebration of more than a century of plant pathology publishing, The American Phytopathological Society (APS) has released a new virtual collection in Phytopathology^®, highlighting foundational research that has shaped the field of plant pathology since the journal’s inception in 1911.