Technology
Climate Change Is Eroding the Cheapest Way to Cool the World's Data Centers
Somewhere right now, in a windowless hall packed with humming server cabinets, a building is breathing.
Jun 26, 2026
Health
Trained on 2,216 Recipes, AI Built a Burger That Beat the Big Mac
The machine had never tasted anything. It had never smelled a grill, never felt the give of a bun, never known whether salt belonged anywhere near beef.
Jun 26, 2026
Health
Microneedles Mimic a Carnivorous Plant to Heal Diabetic Wounds
The needles start out straight, packed in a tidy array no wider than a fingertip.
Jun 26, 2026
Physics
A New Way to Touch the Most Violent Gravity in the Universe
Sizheng Ma already knew what he was looking for before he went looking. He and his colleagues had spent months working out, on paper, what a very particular twist of spacetime should sound like once it reached Earth as a gravitational wave.
Jun 26, 2026
Health
A Bandage That Makes Its Own Gas Could Help Stubborn Wounds Heal
A blister on the heel. A small cut that catches on a sock. For most of us these are nothing, gone in a week and forgotten.
Jun 25, 2026
Earth & Environment
Why Earth Could Not Hold On to Its First Continents Until the Asteroids Stopped Falling
An object ten kilometres across slams into a young Earth, and the rock does not just shatter.
Jun 25, 2026
Health
A Single Gut Bacterium Eases Lupus in Mice by Restoring How the Microbiome Digests Fiber
Deep in the colon, where there is no oxygen and no light, a bacterium called Faecalibacterium prausnitzii spends its life breaking down the fiber you ate for lunch.
Jun 25, 2026
Space
Two Planets Lighter Than Candy Floss Are Circling a Distant Star in Lockstep
For months at a time, the sun does not rise over Concordia Station. That is precisely the point.
Jun 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why Plants, Fungi and Toads All Learned to Make the Same Mind-Altering Molecules
The peyote cactus tastes terrible. Bite into one and your mouth fills with a bitterness that seems engineered to make you stop, and in a sense it was.
Jun 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A Dog's Shortening Front Stride Can Signal Dementia Before the Memory Goes
Years before a person with dementia starts forgetting names or losing the thread of a conversation, their walk often gives them away.
Jun 25, 2026
Life
Cells Sculpt Themselves Using Swarms of Self-Propelled Actin Bundles
A glioma cell sitting on a glass dish has no instructions. Nothing outside it is telling it which way to go, where to bulge, where to flatten.
Jun 25, 2026
Brain & Behavior
New Form of Brain Cell Death May Explain How Dementia Destroys Neurons
Inside a dying brain cell, the first thing to go is the nucleus. Not the whole cell at once, not some tidy programmed shutdown, but the nucleus itself: the…
Jun 25, 2026
Health
Scratched Contact Lenses Heal Themselves Under an Hour of UV Light
A razor blade dragged across a soft contact lens leaves a gouge about a third of the way through it, deep enough to scatter light and catch the eye.
Jun 23, 2026
Health
A Common Gene Variant Once Blamed for Cancer Turns Out to Guard Against It
Back in 1998, Boris Pasche found something odd buried in a stretch of human DNA that most people will never think about.
Jun 23, 2026