POSTECH and Stockholm University observe water’s liquid-liquid critical point, published in Science, following the team’s 2017 and 2020 papers in the same journal. Ten years of persistent research leads to a discovery that could rewrite textbooks

Antibiotic pollution is emerging as a serious global threat, contaminating water systems and contributing to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria. Now, researchers have developed a powerful artificial intelligence tool that can predict how effectively biochar materials break down antibiotics, offering a faster and smarter way to design environmental cleanup technologies.

Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from agricultural waste, has long been valued for improving soil and capturing carbon. Now, a new review highlights a less visible but potentially transformative property that could redefine its role in environmental technology: its ability to move electrons.

Urban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and residential lawns play an essential role in supporting biodiversity, storing carbon, and improving human well-being. However, rapid urbanization is degrading these soils, reducing their fertility and disrupting natural nutrient cycles. A new study reveals that combining biochar and compost can restore soil health, but only under the right conditions, and fungi play a decisive role in determining success.

A new study demonstrates that agricultural waste can be transformed into a powerful, eco-friendly catalyst that dramatically improves the removal of stubborn chemical pollutants from water. Researchers developed a nitrogen-doped biochar made from cotton hulls that enhances ozone-based water treatment efficiency by more than 100 times, offering a promising solution for tackling emerging contaminants.

A five-year field study reveals that biochar can do far more than improve soil chemistry. It can reorganize entire soil ecosystems, creating lasting benefits for agriculture and environmental sustainability.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed pump-field-probe fluorescence microscopy, a new method that reveals short-lived, magnetically sensitive biomolecular intermediates that do not emit light directly. The platform enables nanosecond scale tracking of spin-dependent reaction dynamics and supports future applications in quantum biology and biomedically relevant magnetic-field research.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville professor and Goodrich Chair of Excellence in Civil Engineering Frank Loeffler and his coauthors published new research on the environmental impacts of “forever chemicals” in Nature Microbiology last week.