Common cotton is one of the forms of lignine, which is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (the same as wood), but when ... in the manufacture of French artificial flowers.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swept onto Capitol Hill late Monday, as the anti-vaccine health guru from the famous political family ...

The U.S. has updated a decades-old science and technology agreement with China to reflect their growing rivalry for technological dominance. The new agreement, signed Friday ...

Kaihang Shi will use a $110,000 award to create microporous polymers to make natural gas processing more energy-efficient.

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The skinniest pasta yet made—let’s call it “nanotini”—has an average diameter of 372 nanometers and only two ingredients: ...

But artificial intelligence may soon transcend ... s Gabriel envisions a future agent that could help to discover new scientific knowledge. And this might not be far away. A paper posted to ...

For Scientific American’s Science Quickly ... Here’s associate technology editor Ben Guarino to tell us how the artificial intelligence conversation evolved in 2024. Guarino: The focus ...

From a total solar eclipse that captivated our continent to record temperatures that scorched the planet, these were the ...