Start with the gap. In 2022, European products containing critical raw materials sent roughly 5.2 million tonnes of those materials through factory gates and into homes, vehicles, wind farms, and data centres.
May 27, 2026
Take a thin wafer of antimony and tellurium, roughly 30 nanometers thick, and cool it toward absolute zero.
May 27, 2026
Your shower head furs up. Your kettle goes white around the element. Your teapot acquires that stubborn calcium ring no amount of soaking quite shifts.
May 27, 2026
Something shifted in the colorectal cancer data around 2013. Deaths in older Americans kept falling, a decades-long success story of colonoscopy programmes and improved treatment, but among people under 50 the numbers started moving the other way.
May 27, 2026
Somewhere inside your skin right now, a small protein fragment is going about its business.
May 27, 2026
Eight hours in bed. No alarm woke you. You drifted off easily enough, no tossing, no staring at the ceiling.
May 27, 2026
Crocodiles are, broadly speaking, a conservative bunch. Four legs, armored back, mouth full of teeth, attitude of total indifference to your wellbeing.
May 27, 2026
Every morning for four weeks, twelve adults with obesity drank two small cans of a deep-red juice, then had their blood drawn.
May 27, 2026
In the summer of 2011, something odd turned up in the satellite data. A mass of floating brown seaweed, historically confined to the relatively quiet waters of the Sargasso Sea, had spread into the tropical Atlantic in quantities no one had seen before.
May 25, 2026
Ask an AI image generator to picture Washington D.C. and it will probably give you the Mall, the monuments, the Potomac glinting in afternoon light.
May 25, 2026
From the roof of a teaching building at South China University of Technology, a beam of white light crossed 1,200 metres of open air and arrived, intact, at a receiver on the other side of the campus.
May 25, 2026
Neuropathic pain is, in a sense, a glitch that refuses to self-correct. The original injury heals, or heals as much as it ever will, but the nervous system…
May 25, 2026
The heart stops getting blood. Minutes pass, muscle dies, and somewhere across town an ambulance is already moving.
May 25, 2026
Inside a dendritic cell, something is being decided. The cell has just swallowed a fragment of debris from a dead tumour neighbour and is now, in a sense, reading it, translating molecular scraps into instructions for the immune system's killer T cells.
May 25, 2026
