Gael was upset to learn his fishing catch could contain microplastics. He used shellfish-derived chitosan to clean pollutants from water. He showed chitosan cleaned 55-75 percent of plastic particles, ...

Lilly tested whether dibenzazepine could be used as a treatment for alcohol addiction. Using fruit flies, she fed them ethanol and then tested whether dibenzazepine affected how much alcohol they ...

Hanna studied how salt water might affect aquatic plants and organisms that depend on fresh water. She prepared five concentrations of salt and tested them on mung bean seeds and the crustacean ...

Isabella learned that microplastics are showing up inside people, and decided to find out whether plants that produce mucilages, like okra, fenugreek and psyllium husk could absorb microplastics.

On the morning Michael Woodford learned he had won the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he still had an exam to give. His students might have hoped for a cancellation; their professor ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For more than a decade, Science News has celebrated early- and mid-career scientists tackling some of today’s biggest challenges. This year’s SN 10: Scientists to Watch list ...

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, sat down with John Pardon, a professor at Stony Brook University and a recipient of the 2026 Fields Medal.

Placing earthquake sensors is a balance of being able to access the sensor, and having it detect shakes. Using a set of earthquake data and sensors from the Los Angeles area, Isabel tested game theory ...

Working with his identical twin brother Henry, the two set out to determine whether a hydrogel could be used to stop wildfires from starting again. They tested nine gels for drying time, stickiness, ...

Bailey made a sampler for environmental DNA out of a fan and filter paper to monitor environments for pathogens. She grew bacteria from indoor and outdoor samples. Her indoor samples had more types of ...

To improve batting ability, baseball players need to face off against a pitcher that can vary its throws. Andrew trained an AI model on 200 images, teaching it to recognize six key points on a batter.