Brain & Behavior
The Youth Mental Health Crisis Has a Deeper Cause Than Social Media
The most anxious generation in recorded history did not become that way because of their phones.
May 28, 2026
Uncategorized
How Scientists Gave Ordinary Soil Bacteria the Ability to Fix Nitrogen from the Air
In a greenhouse at Washington State University Vancouver, two strains of soil bacteria are being pressed together on a nutrient plate, swapping DNA at the rate that evolution normally manages only over millions of years.
May 28, 2026
Health
Your Child's ECG Knows When Puberty Has Arrived
Feed enough heartbeats into an AI and it starts to see things clinicians have never thought to look for.
May 28, 2026
Physics
Dead Stars Are Sculpting the Cradles Where New Ones Are Born
Point a submillimetre telescope at almost any region of active star formation and you'll notice the same odd geometry.
May 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Human Brain Organoids Are Learning to Play Video Games. That Is Only the Beginning.
Start with a skin cell. Bathe it in the right cocktail of chemical signals and it forgets what it is, regressing to a state of biological openness, capable of becoming almost anything.
May 28, 2026
Technology
Quantum Physicists Have Generated the First Mathematically Certified Perfect Random Numbers
Randomness sounds like the easiest thing in the world to produce. Flip a coin, roll a die, pick a number between one and a hundred.
May 27, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Five Social Media Posts May Be All It Takes to Change What You Believe
Five. That's roughly the number of consistent social media posts it may take before your opinion on an unfamiliar topic begins to set.
May 27, 2026
Technology
A New Way to Take the Temperature of Materials Too Thin to See
Take a platinum wire twenty-five micrometres across, which is roughly a quarter the width of a human hair, and suspend it in a vacuum between two aluminium electrodes.
May 27, 2026
Physics
The Universe Builds Black Holes in More Than One Way, and We Now Have Proof
The count stands at 267. That is the number of confirmed gravitational-wave events pulled from detector data stretching back nearly a decade, 267 separate…
May 27, 2026
Earth & Environment
Most Solar Farms in America Face Little or No Public Opposition, Study Finds
The story the headlines tell is a familiar one: local residents furious, farmland threatened, planning meetings turned battlegrounds, the clean energy transition stalling in a thicket of protest signs and injunctions.
May 27, 2026
Health
Urine Test Can Identify Most Children With Autism by Reading Their Gut Bacteria
Deep in the gut of a two-year-old, bacteria are doing something they were not quite supposed to do.
May 27, 2026
Life
Worker Bees, Not Queens, Decide Which Larvae Become Royalty
The queen is not in charge. Not really. In a bumble bee colony, the most consequential decisions about who gets to become the next monarch are made by workers…
May 27, 2026
Health
The Mosquito Already in Your Garden Could Soon Carry a Tropical Disease
On the maps, the red bleeds slowly upward. What was once a tight cluster of risk zones hugging the equator, a disease confined to the tropics by temperature as…
May 27, 2026
Health
The Tiny Ligament That Is Ending Baseball Careers, and the Computer That Might Save It
It is roughly the size of a paperclip. Tucked on the inside of the elbow, strung between two bones, doing a job it was never built for.
May 27, 2026