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Optics & Photonics Jun 11, 2026

Physicists introduce phase contrast to electron microscopy, delivering sharper images of our body's tiniest proteins

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which garnered a Nobel Prize in 1953, brought into clear view structures inside cells that had previously ...

Earth Sciences Jun 11, 2026

Overlooked pollutants are responsible for about 15% of current global warming, study shows

In a new paper published in Science, leading scientists and climate policy experts show that 15% of current global warming (0.3°C) from human emissions stems from pollutants that fall outside most existing climate policy ...

Environment Jun 11, 2026

El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

El Niño, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.

Planetary Sciences Jun 11, 2026

Earth's energy imbalance has doubled—here's why that matters

Heat waves across Europe and South Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface expression of more fundamental changes affecting our planet: Earth itself is accumulating heat faster than ever ...

Ecology Jun 11, 2026

Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life

People's knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke tragedy and despair. But in nature, most plants ...

Environment Jun 11, 2026

Air pollution's daily pulse over the Northeast

The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026. More than 35 million people live along the New York–Washington corridor ...

Astronomy Jun 11, 2026

On the hunt for cosmic dawn and the universe's very first stars

After only four short years, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and observational cosmologists like Richard Ellis at University College London (UCL) have pushed the cosmic lookback time to an era when the universe's ...

Materials Science Jun 10, 2026

Butter or margarine? A food scientist describes how subtle chemical deviations can affect your baked goods

My mother loves butter. It is the primary fat I ate growing up. She smeared it on any kind of bread, potatoes, nut rolls or coffeecake. She baked with it exclusively.

Economics & Business Jun 10, 2026

Canada's 'AI for All' strategy has ambitious growth targets, but it falls short on workers and the environment

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's AI for All strategy on June 4, committing more than $2 billion in new spending and targeting $200 billion in additional GDP growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2031.

Agriculture Jun 10, 2026

Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change

Global rice production nearly doubled between the 1960s and the 2010s, despite the negative impacts of climate change, according to a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The study found that management ...

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