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May 30, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend ...

Researchers from Leiden University and Solid Sustainability Research have published a new study in PLOS Climate on the links ...

Launched this winter, the Data-Driven Plant Science course bridges experimental biology with embedded sensing, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Last week NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to answer questions about the space agency. When Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas asked Isaacman about ...

China’s R&D spending milestone caps a series of achievements that have arrived in rapid succession. In 2019, China surpassed the US in its share of the top 1% most-highly cited papers – what some call ...