Keeping food waste out of landfills provides climate and other environmental benefits, and Vermont requires residents to divert these materials to better management pathways. With other states considering similar policies, UVM researchers studied the potential outcomes of bringing these efforts to a national scale. Key findings include that diversion of food waste from landfills to composting and anaerobic digestion at a national scale in the U.S. would reduce the current climate impacts of these wastes by 89 to 99%. Environmental nutrient pollution from food waste management, which can contribute to infamous summer blue-green algae blooms in lakes, could drop by 49 to 54% for nitrogen, and 78 to 98% for phosphorus. But if the organics resulting from composting and anaerobic digestion were spread on agricultural fields, they could also carry around 20,000 tons of microplastics into the soil annually, the researchers found.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University of Cambridge in collaboration with colleagues at HHMI Janelia and NIH, have created some of the most detailed three-dimensional maps ever generated of human airway cells, revealing how the specialised cells that protect our lungs are built and organised. 

High-speed optical imaging is often limited by the trade-off between sensitivity and response speed. Researchers developed an NbSe₂/WSe₂ semimetal-semiconductor heterostructure that tailors interfacial energy barriers through band engineering, enabling low dark current, rapid photoresponse, and high-fidelity imaging

Researchers at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) co-authored 20 papers accepted at ACL 2026, the world's foremost conference in natural language processing. Remarkably, two of these papers earned major honors: one received the Best Theme Paper award and another the Outstanding Paper award. A third paper was further selected for a Best Paper Award, the conference's highest distinction, underscoring NII's growing presence and impact at the leading international venue for the field.