Iowa State University's James Vary and an international team of nuclear physicists used supercomputers to theorize and predict that a four-neutron structure, a tetraneutron, could form for just billions of billionths of a second. Experiments in Japan have now confirmed the reality of a tetraneutron.

Houston, Harris County, Port Houston and entrepreneur Joe Swinbank have chipped in for an engineering study of Galveston Bay Park, a chain of man-made islands that Rice University experts have proposed building as both a hurricane barrier and a 10,000-acre public park.

Things have changed since I was last in Belize in 2018, when I excavated the ancestral Maya pilgrimage site Cara Blanca. Thousands of acres of jungle are gone, replaced by fields of corn and sugarcane. Hundreds of ancestral Maya mounds are now exposed in the treeless landscape, covered by soil that is currently plowed several times a year.

Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They’re watching how fractures form and grow in a rock-like substance to see if explosives or propellants, similar to jet fuel, can connect geothermal wells in a predictable manner.

As average temperatures blaze into the mid-90s, Texas residents venturing outdoors may spot a few snakes slithering across their backyards or local walking trails. It’s snake season, and Greg Pandelis, curator of the Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center at The University of Texas at Arlington, is on a mission to raise awareness of and appreciation for Texas’ reptilian residents.

TTUHSC’s Afzal A. Siddiqui, Ph.D., began developing a schistosomiasis vaccine in 1991 as a humanitarian effort. In May, the first dose of SchistoShield® vaccine was delivered into the arm of a human being, filling Siddiqui with joy and fear and other new feelings. An estimated 250 million people are currently infected with schistosomiasis; approximately 800 million more are at risk in 79 countries where the disease is considered to be endemic.

The first Safe Zone Project workshop at Argonne focuses on allyship with more vital topics to help increase communication, safety and bias-free inclusion in the workplace for LGBTQIA+ employees.

Q&A with Dan McCurry, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, on California water restrictions, the different types of wastewater and whether he meets the new state requirements for personal water use.