Health
Sewage Is Spotting a Deadly Fungus Before Patients Fall Ill
Every hospital has drains. Sinks, toilets, floor gullies in procedure rooms, the slow trickle from IV lines flushed between patients.
May 20, 2026
Technology
Solar Panels Lose a Third of Their Gains to Coal Pollution, Global Study Finds
For every three solar panels' worth of electricity that came online somewhere in the world between 2017 and 2023, the equivalent of one panel's worth of power quietly vanished.
May 15, 2026
Life
Southeast Asia’s Largest Dinosaur Lay Undiscovered at the Edge of a Village Pond
Hold a ruler alongside a standard doorframe and you get roughly two metres. The front leg bone of Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis is 1.78 metres long.
May 15, 2026
Health
AI Tool Reads Individual Tumor Cells to Predict Who Will Survive Cancer
Two patients walk into an oncology clinic with what looks, on paper, like the same melanoma.
Apr 21, 2026
Technology
Why Perfect AI Alignment Is Mathematically Impossible, and Why That Might Be Fine
In 1936, Alan Turing proved something that should, in principle, have no bearing on artificial intelligence chatbots.
Apr 14, 2026
Health
One in Ten People May Be Genetically Resistant to GLP-1 Diabetes Drugs Like Ozempic
The body makes plenty of the hormone. Arguably too much of it. And yet the hormone does almost nothing.
Apr 11, 2026
Technology
Three AI Superpowers Are Developing Incompatible Technologies That May Never Converge
Somewhere in a Guangzhou laboratory, a team of researchers has just finished mapping something that looks, from a distance, like a geopolitical fault line — except it runs through lines of code rather than continental crust.
Mar 3, 2026
Life
Neanderthal Men and Human Women Drove Most Interbreeding Between the Two Species
Scan your genome and you'll find bits of Neanderthal scattered through it like old furniture in an attic.
Feb 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
Biochar Can Curb or Boost Greenhouse Gas Depending on Soil
Two adjacent fields in Jiangxi Province, China, grow different crops — one peanuts, one rice.
Feb 27, 2026
Technology
Chinese Scientists Build First Low-Power Superconducting Space Thruster
Inside a vacuum chamber in Hefei, China, a thread of glowing plasma hangs in space.
Feb 23, 2026
Technology
The Ancient Abacus Trick That Could Supercharge AI
The Chinese suanpan has been around for roughly 1,000 years. Slide a bead up, slide a bead down — each rod operates independently, and the number it represents depends only on where the beads sit.
Feb 23, 2026
Technology
Five States At Once: How Physicists Just Multiplied The Power Of Quantum Teleportation
The quantum state exists in one place. Then it exists in another. Nothing physical moved between them — not an electron, not a photon carrying the information.
Feb 23, 2026
Technology
Listening To A Single Molecule Sing Its Own Name
At 7 kelvin — a temperature so cold that even air would freeze solid — a single molecule sits on a copper surface.
Feb 20, 2026
Health
The Science of the Munchies: How Cannabis Overrides the Brain’s ‘Full’ Switch
Ryan McLaughlin wanted to know what happened inside a rat's brain when it got stoned.
Feb 19, 2026