In an era where nobody seems to care about the environment anymore, it's refreshing to see a project that intends to reduce microplastics, create jobs, fund higher education, and help the automotive industry, all at the same time. Knox News reports that the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is one of 12 winners of the National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines competition. That means UT, along with its corporate partners, will receive up to $160 million over the next ten years to develop and produce bioplastics made from grass to be grown throughout the Southeast U.S. UT lists the Volkswagen Group of America among its partners, meaning that some of this will apply directly to the automotive industry.
Spatial maps of the normalized differences for BINN and PRODA. Credit: Geoscientific Model Development (2026). DOI: 10.5194/gmd-19-6777-2026
A new computer model is one of the first artificial intelligence tools to advance scientific discovery in agriculture and biogeochemistry and is 50 times more efficient than its predecessors, according to a study that offers a proof-of-principle for how AI might be used to shed light on obscure biological processes.
Wildfires in the UK and Europe are a "stark reminder of the challenges posed by an increasingly extreme climate", the Prince of Wales has said.
More than 300,000 people have so far been evacuated from parts of France and Spain as wildfires continue to rage on the continent, with another intense heatwave on the way.
Director and lead star Panta Mosleh’s queer comedy Pass the Salt — about a sheltered Muslim-Iranian grad student who falls in love with a young Jewish woman — has added Amanda Wear, Adam Fox and Nathaniel Vass to its ensemble cast.
The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades-long shift in how fresh food moves through the country.
The Terra Sirenum plain on Mars may have experienced hydrological processes similar to those observed in the lakes of Western Australia. Topology is color coded in this image, with lower regions shown in blue and purple and higher-altitude regions shown in whites and reds. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares geological characteristics with lakes in Mars' Terra Sirenum region. T. A. Plattner and colleagues recently characterized those shared features to shed light on the region's aqueous history and its potential to have supported life in an article published in the journal Earth and Space Science.
Xbox and Lamborghini have created a Halo-inspired one-off, the Urus SE Master Chief 117 Edition, to celebrate the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved.
A limited number of 1:18-scale models are being given away through a sweepstakes on Xbox's official X account.
Players will also be able to redeem the special-edition livery in Forza Horizon 6 starting July 30.
For the past decade or so, Microsoft has shown that it is willing to cut just about any corner it can when it comes to actual investment in game development for its storied franchise, Halo. As a lifelong Halo fan, I’m tired, boss. Tomorrow marks the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved, a (mostly) faithful recreation of the 2001 original, Halo: Combat Evolved, and Xbox is celebrating by collaborating with, you guessed it, Lamborghini.
Video games are an art form, and the levels used to build many of them can be thought of as the brush strokes that make it all possible. And yet, as with any medium, there are moments that don’t go quite right. Even fantastic games feature stretches where design principles falter or potential remains unmet.
E.J. Peaker, who portrayed the chatty hat shop assistant, Minnie Fay, in Barbra Streisand’s Hello, Dolly! and starred with Robert Morse on the innovative but short-lived ABC musical comedy show That’s Life, has died. She was 82.
