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- 1Botanical Garden Scientists Warn Food Plant Diversity Under Threat●New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) "With increasing threats to plant diversity limiting our options for developing healthi
Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden have published a series of papers in the journal Plants, People, Planet arguing that growing threats to plant diversity are narrowing the options for building healthier, more resilient food systems. The papers explain why food plant diversity matters and set out a vision for collaboration between scientists, growers and communities to protect it. The warning highlights how the loss of crop varieties and wild relatives could undermine global food security.
- 2OAPEN and Max Planck Society partner on open access book collection●Max Planck Digital Library: OAPEN and Max Planck Society partner to build collection of funded open access books. “The O
The OAPEN Foundation and the Max Planck Society have announced a partnership to build a dedicated collection of open access books funded by the Max Planck Digital Library. The initiative will gather openly available scholarly books supported by the society's funding, expanding access to research outputs beyond journal articles. The announcement, shared by the Max Planck Digital Library, is being circulated among open science and research communities interested in growing open access monograph infrastructure.
- 3Oransky says publish-or-perish incentives flood medical literature with junk●"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they
Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, argues that medical schools and universities are themselves to blame for junk science filling academic journals. He says admissions processes that reward applicants for publications give students an incentive to publish large volumes of low-quality research, overwhelming the medical literature with what he calls garbage.
- 4Inside Sandia's Z machine: nuclear science meets clean energy▼Inside Sandia’s Z machine, where nuclear war meets clean energy
The Albuquerque Journal takes readers inside Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine in New Mexico, the world's most powerful pulsed-power facility. Originally built to study materials under nuclear weapons conditions, the device is now central to research on fusion energy, exploring how the same physics that powers warheads could one day deliver clean, abundant power.
- 5World News Day 2026 Puts Journalism at Heart of Climate Fight●World News Day 2026: We Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis Without Journalism
World News Day 2026 is being marked with the message that the climate crisis cannot be solved without journalism. Outlets including Earth.Org are highlighting the role reporters play in documenting climate impacts, holding polluters to account and translating complex science for the public. Commentators argue that shrinking newsrooms and misinformation make quality climate reporting more vital than ever.