Metastatic disease—when cancer spreads from the primary tumor to other parts of the body—is the cause of most cancer deaths. 

Smoke billowed from a fire in the forests of western Wyoming in early October 2024.

A collaborative research team involving Texas A&M University geologist Dr. Franco Marcantonio has examined the source of lead contamination in a Tibetan glacier, concluding that human activities have introduced the pollutant metal in some of the most remote regions of the world.

Plastic pollution – tiny bits of plastic, smaller than a grain of sand – is everywhere, a fact of life that applies even to newborn rodents, according to a Rutgers Health study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems.

Step aside hard, rigid materials.

On a cool morning, you hike a desert trail, noticing the life around you. Saguaros and creosote. Hawks and lizards. Rabbits and centipedes.

Plants can absorb micro- and nanoplastics in their stems and roots, raising concerns about how natural ecosystems cope when plastic particles invade.

University of Houston researchers and their students are developing a new software technology, based on artificial intelligence, for advancing cell-based immunotherapy to treat cancer and other diseases.

A multi-disciplinary University of Queensland project aims to quantify how many Australians will be forced to relocate because of climate change disaster scenarios in the next 25 years.