The American Association for Advances in Functional Materials has selected professor Steven DenBaars to receive its 2021 AAAFM-Nakamura Award.

Conservation aquaculture could bring more Olympia oysters to estuaries along the west coast.

Anaerobic fungi that produce the unique building blocks of antibiotics have been discovered in the guts of herbivores.

Muhammad Reza Cordova is searching for treasure amid the water bottles, plastic bags, and plastic foam cups that choke the beaches, reefs, and mangrove forests around Jakarta, Indonesia. In the microbe-rich slime coating some of that trash, he hopes to find organisms to help solve the vexing problem of what to do with the plastic flooding the planet.