In the U.S. midterm elections, Democrats won control of governorships and state legislatures across the country. At a time of public outcry over data centers...

Researchers find dozens of new sites violating a landmark Ecuadorian ruling that ordered the flares’ shutdown by 2030

Daniel Amen’s pending appointment reflects growing influence of Make America Healthy Again movement on federally funded psychiatric research

Kerry decries president for ceding clean-energy dominance to China and says climate crisis still a key issue for votersDonald Trump is the ‘biggest loser we’ve...

Proponents argue ocean carbon removal is necessary to counteract the effects of the climate crisis but critics say more research is needed A cluster of...

Energy Committee Chair Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler sees the Democratic trifecta in Harrisburg as a ‘huge opportunity’ for new legislation.By Ben SealThe Democrats’ sweeping success at...

‘Electrify everything’ has become a mantra in the fight against climate change. Switching a home’s heating, cooling, and other energy-intensive loads from fossil fuels to...

On October 20, the two candidates running to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers, took questions for an hour at...

A second set of world leaders give their speeches on Thursday before heading out of town and leaving their negotiators to it. After around 40...

OpenAI and an Anthropic-associated research team have made progress on the Yang-Mills existence problem

Failure to cut emissions will ‘consign humanity to disasters they are unable to adapt to’, report saysThe world is heading for an ‘irrecoverable overshoot’ of...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 45, November 2026. SignificanceClimate change is intensifying extreme heat worldwide. Concurrently, geospatial distributions of children...

New study quantifies the ‘blockbuster effect’—and argues it could help today’s threatened species

Abstract Small islands and ice rumples can regulate ice‐shelf flow, but conventional satellite altimetry poorly resolves their evolution. Here we use CryoSat‐2 SARIn swath altimetry...

Abstract Turbulent mixing may become increasingly important in a changing Arctic Ocean, influencing regional dynamics and global overturning. Arctic turbulence remains poorly characterized due to...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 45, November 2026. SignificanceQuorum sensing (QS) enables bacteria to coordinate group behaviors via chemical signals....

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 45, November 2026. SignificancePharmacological modulation of the Hippo signaling pathway holds great promise for a...

Using genome editing to trace cell lineages, researchers capture the early history of the mouse embryo in unprecedented detail

Samples from Japan’s MMX mission could reveal how Phobos formed—and may contain pieces of Mars

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 45, November 2026. SignificanceVaccine design requires an understanding of how effective, pathogen-specific immune responses are...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 45, November 2026. SignificanceAllosteric regulation is central to protein function, yet how it is encoded...

Department of Agriculture will expand effort to describe genetics of seed banks

Algorithm looks for clues about a paper’s origin that text-based detectors miss

Although previous studies have highlighted advantages of adopting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, their actual capacity to generate long-term and inclusive effects remains unclear. Beneficiaries report...