Health
A Garden Shrub Known as Blood Tonic Shielded Mouse Pancreas Cells From Inflammatory Damage
Deep in the pancreas, tucked among the islets of Langerhans, sit the alpha cells.
May 31, 2026
Health
80,000 Doctors and Nurses Caught in America's Broadest Immigration Ban
In a rural clinic where the nearest hospital is an hour's drive and the waiting list for a primary care appointment runs into months, the odds are unusually…
May 31, 2026
Health
Pandemic Loan Fraud Helped Push Up US House Prices, and Ordinary Buyers Paid for It
Follow the money far enough and it ends up somewhere physical. A car. A furniture order.
May 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Newer Brain Scan Spots Alzheimer's Tau Years Before Symptoms, and Twice as Often
Two radioactive tracers go into the same brain, five weeks apart. They are hunting the same thing: the tangled knots of tau protein that mark out Alzheimer's disease from the dozens of other conditions that fog the ageing mind.
May 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Governments Are Banning Teens from Social Media Without Any Evidence It Will Help
Australia switched it on in December. Anyone under 16, locked out of their social media accounts, by law.
May 29, 2026
Technology
Physicists Turn a Single Frozen Atom into a Camera That Sees Light Below the Diffraction Limit
The best camera for photographing light turns out to be a single atom, frozen until it barely moves, and dragged through the beam one nanometer-sized step after another.
May 29, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Brain Circuit That Decides Where One Memory Ends and the Next Begins
A mouse stands in a small chamber it has never been shocked in. The walls are smooth and white, the floor a particular texture, and nothing bad has ever happened here.
May 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Alzheimer's Follows Three Distinct Paths, and Scientists Are Starting to Tell Them Apart
Seven in ten. That's roughly the share of people who have amyloid plaques accumulating silently in their brains, one of Alzheimer's earliest biological signatures, who showed no measurable cognitive decline over nearly six years of careful monitoring.
May 28, 2026
Health
A Contraceptive Drug May Help Reverse Nerve Damage Once Thought Permanent
The muscle cluster flinched. Not a twitch caused by direct stimulation, but a contraction driven by signals travelling along axons that had grown, over weeks, from a miniature brain across a gap and into a miniature spinal cord.
May 28, 2026
Health
A Tiny Drug-Loaded Mesh Implanted in the Brain Is Keeping Glioblastoma at Bay
It's smaller than a thumbnail. A dense, whitish square, barely a millimetre thick, laser-cut from a folded membrane of polymer fibres thinner than human hair.
May 28, 2026
Bloggers
Dirty Water Is Now Generating Electricity and Cleaning Itself
A droplet of treated wastewater falls thirty centimetres and strikes a thin plastic film.
May 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Young Children Can Read Human Eyes for Hidden Desires. A Robot's Gaze Tells Them Nothing.
By the age of 3, a child already knows something that took engineers years to articulate: the eyes are not just organs of vision.
May 28, 2026
Space
The Sun Is Squeezing Its Magnetic Activity Toward the Surface and Nobody Knows Why
Six telescopes, spread across three continents, have been listening to the Sun for nearly four decades.
May 28, 2026
Health
The Molecule Our Own Cells Make That Could Finally Help Treat Drug-Resistant Rheumatoid Arthritis
Your immune system, when it turns against you, does so methodically. In rheumatoid arthritis the synovial membrane, that thin lining cushioning every joint…
May 28, 2026