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Arctic sea ice reached its lowest annual maximum extent on record in March 2026, with satellite data showing a continued erosion of the winter ice cap that scientists attribute to accelerating polar warming.

Harvard's DoriVac platform, built from self-assembling DNA nanostructures, matches mRNA vaccine immune responses while eliminating cold chain requirements, a Nature Biomedical Engineering study shows.

Spinosaurus mirabilis, the first new spinosaurid species in over a century, has been identified from fossils in Niger's Sahara, challenging the view that these predators were coastal.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed pPro-MobV, a second-generation CRISPR-based gene drive that spreads through bacterial populations via conjugal transfer to disable antibiotic resistance genes, demonstrating effectiveness even within biofilms.

Researchers at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and RMIT have built and tested a quantum battery prototype that completed a full charge-store-discharge cycle for the first time, demonstrating a counterintuitive property where charging speed increases with battery size.

Scientists have detected all five canonical nucleobases in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, the first confirmation of a complete set of DNA and RNA building blocks in material collected directly from space.

A Kyoto University team applied three types of shear strain to ultra-thin crystals of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 and found virtually no change in its transition temperature, ruling out several leading theoretical models and opening new questions about the material's pairing symmetry.

Two March discoveries reveal a 10-billion-year-old lava world with a thick atmosphere and a sulfur-dominated planet unlike anything in existing classification systems.

Sandia demonstrates that spiking neural networks can solve physics simulations on Intel Loihi 2, Intel ships the 4nm Loihi 3 with eight million neurons, and UT San Antonio opens the first public neuromorphic computing hub in the United States.

A Science Advances study identifies cell-free ice-nucleating proteins in Mortierellaceae soil fungi, acquired from bacteria via horizontal gene transfer, offering a non-toxic alternative to silver iodide for cloud seeding.

Paleontologists have recovered tiny fossilized teeth of Purgatorius from Colorado's Denver Basin, marking the southernmost occurrence ever documented and suggesting that archaic primates dispersed rapidly across western North America within hundreds of thousands of years of the dinosaur extinction.

Neste has commissioned a EUR 111 million facility in Finland for 150,000 tons of waste plastic per year, while UNIST researchers demonstrate PET decomposition at half the usual temperature with hydrogen co-production.