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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.

An Oxford-led study warns nearly 8,000 vertebrate species face unsuitable conditions by 2100 from combined heat and land-use stress, while a separate Nature Climate Change paper finds that protecting biodiversity hotspots would halve the land available for forestation-based carbon removal.

A Stanford-led study published in Science presents the first systematic global catalog of earthquakes originating in the continental mantle, identifying 459 events since 1990 and revealing unexpected clustering beneath the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

Stanford bioengineers publish a reverse-translation chemistry in Nature Biotechnology that converts peptides into DNA barcodes, achieving single-molecule resolution up to 1,000 times more sensitive than mass spectrometry.

Three major studies reveal invasive species cut insect numbers by 31 percent globally, climate change alone drove a 72 percent decline in a pristine Colorado meadow, and monitoring frameworks cannot yet track whether rescue plans work.

Three separate satellite programs are converging in 2026 to transform wildfire detection from space, while university researchers benchmark AI models that could process the flood of new orbital data.

JWST observations of super-Earth L 98-59 d reveal a sulfur-dominated atmosphere sustained by a perpetual magma ocean, a combination that fits no existing planetary category and may define a new class of exoplanet.

A failed control experiment led Cambridge chemists to discover a metal-free, LED-driven method for modifying drug molecules at positions previously considered unreachable, reversing the selectivity rules established by Friedel and Crafts in 1877.

Los Alamos and University of New Mexico researchers built THOR, an open-source tensor network framework that computes configurational integrals for crystalline solids 400 times faster than molecular dynamics simulations.

Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.

Paleontologists report paired discoveries from China that rewrite the early chapter of bony fish evolution and, by extension, the evolutionary lineage leading to all living vertebrates including humans.

James Webb Space Telescope identifies galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at redshift z=1.156, the most distant jellyfish galaxy known, revealing cluster environments were stripping galaxies far earlier than models predicted.