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
The electrodes were already there. Surgeons had threaded them months earlier, fine wires snaking through millimetre holes in the skull to sit inside the brain itself, recording the electrical storms that define drug-resistant epilepsy.
May 15, 2026
At the moment two liquids meet inside a channel barely half a millimetre across, something quietly extraordinary happens.
May 15, 2026
Feed the right numbers into the right formula and the universe should confess its geometry.
May 15, 2026
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
Three hundred kilograms of Antarctic ice, shipped from a freezer in Bremerhaven to a laboratory in Dresden, reduced by weeks of chemical processing to a few hundred milligrams of dust.
May 13, 2026
The liver is, in most respects, forgiving. Damage it repeatedly with alcohol, or hepatitis, or bile that can't drain, and it will scar.
May 13, 2026
Two in every three Americans think the government has done too little to rein in artificial intelligence.
May 13, 2026
Two amino acids. That is all that separates the APOE2 and APOE4 versions of the apolipoprotein E gene, a difference so small it seems almost irrelevant.
May 13, 2026
Concrete has a guilt problem. Every tonne of cement you pour into a dam, a bridge, a housing block, carries with it roughly 800 kilograms of carbon dioxide released during manufacture, roughly twice the weight of the cement itself.
May 13, 2026
Getting a cancer drug to a tumor is only half the problem. Within hours of arrival, many therapeutics begin to drift, diluted by blood flow, expelled by pumps…
May 13, 2026
She was sure the researchers were cheating. One of the volunteers in Nima Mesgarani's lab at Columbia University had electrodes implanted in her brain, two…
May 12, 2026
Cannabis makes you hungry. This is, by now, one of those facts that barely needs stating.
May 12, 2026
Methyl molecules attach to DNA at predictable sites across the genome, accumulating over a lifetime in patterns so regular that researchers can read them like a clock.
May 12, 2026
