Amir Ameli and Xiao Zhang of Washington State University have created a more environmentally-friendly alternative to polystyrene foam (better known as Styrofoam) which performs better than Styrofoam as an insulator and can support up to 200 times its own weight without losing its shape.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced a new guide for research and funding in animal genomics for 2018-2027.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have discovered a way to create paper-based cell culture scaffolds that model tissue vasculature.

Governments agreed to a global ban of PFOA - a persistent pollutant with known harmful effects on health and the environment - during the 9th Conference of the Parties (COP9) of the Stockholm Convention.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have published findings that demonstrate ingested nanocellulose has little acute toxicity when gavaged at low doses.