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The FDA is simultaneously overhauling its GRAS ingredient notification system, phasing out petroleum-based food dyes by year-end, and confronting PFAS contamination in produce, marking the broadest transformation of US food chemical regulation since the 1958 Food Additives Amendment.

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.

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.

A Cambridge-led study identifies CAG-170 bacteria as a global marker of gut health, Siolta Therapeutics reports a 64 percent reduction in infant atopic dermatitis risk, and UF Health isolates a bacterial metabolite that doubles lung cancer immunotherapy response in mice.

The ISA adjourned without completing deep-sea mining rules as a Nature study found 90 percent of species in the target zone remain unknown and the US fast-tracks its own permits.

Norwegian startup Flocean is preparing to launch Flocean One, the world's first commercial subsea desalination plant, at Mongstad in Q2 2026, using deep-ocean pressure to cut energy use by up to 50 percent.

An extraordinary heat dome is delivering summer-like temperatures across the American Southwest in mid-March, breaking century-old records and threatening already depleted snowpack.

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.

Peak Energy and RWE Americas have deployed the first sodium-ion battery system on the MISO grid in Wisconsin, marking a milestone for the cheaper, cobalt-free chemistry in the US.

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.

MIT physicists built the first terahertz near-field microscope and used it to directly image quantum oscillations of superconducting electrons in BSCCO, a result published in Nature.

A 30-fold expansion of the solar-twin catalog shows the Sun migrated 10,000 light-years outward from the galactic center between four and six billion years ago, carried by the forming central bar.