A new study reports a simple way to make ZSM-5 catalysts last longer during plastic waste conversion, offering a practical step toward more efficient plastic valorization.

Continuous cropping is common in modern vegetable production, but planting the same crop repeatedly in the same soil can gradually weaken soil health, increase disease pressure, and reduce yields. A new review published in Biochar X examines how biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass under oxygen-limited conditions, may help farmers manage these long-standing challenges in solanaceous vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and potatoes.

Rice researchers’ detector concept uses engineered semiconductor materials to search for axions in a range of possible masses that has remained difficult to probe with existing experiments.

SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics, invites the optics and photonics community to apply for this year’s SPIE Prism Awards, which recognize outstanding new products making waves on the market. Honorees will be announced at the highly-anticipated award ceremony on 3 February 2027 at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, California. These awards, dubbed the “Oscars of Photonics,” provide scientists and engineers in the optics and photonics industry the opportunity to showcase their contributions to the field.

Gas giant orbits its dead star so closely that it takes just 1.4 days to complete a full revolution. At this proximity, planet shouldn’t have survived its star’s red giant phase. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysicists measured the planet’s atmosphere, mass and temperature. They found the planet orbited at a safe distance when its star died and migrated closer billions of years after its death.

New research published in Nature is first study to comprehensively interconnect clinical outcomes from patients receiving a HIF-2a inhibitor, with peripheral biomarker changes and associated tumor biology. HIF-2a inhibition with casdatifan resulted in deep and sustained suppression of the hormone erythropoietin in blood (serum EPO), which correlated with higher response rates and longer progression-free survival (PFS). A pooled analysis from four monotherapy cohorts (n=121) of the ARC-20 study showed that advanced kidney cancer patients treated with casdatifan lived beyond a year without cancer progression (median PFS of 12.2 months) despite multiple prior treatments with other standard regimens.

Wiley announces the release of the multi-format NIST Mass Spectral Library 2026, developed by the experienced mass spectrometry team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).