Health
Four Weeks of Eating Differently Can Make Your Body Biologically Younger, New Study Finds
Your body keeps two clocks. One ticks forward a year every year, without exception, without appeal.
May 12, 2026
Health
Molecule in Brown Fat Could Transform Bone Disease Treatment
Every time your body shivers or burns a little extra energy to stay warm, brown fat cells are doing something peculiar: running a futile cycle, burning through energy not to build anything but simply to generate heat.
May 12, 2026
Technology
AI Charges Your Electric Car Fast and Makes the Battery Last Longer Too
Every Uber driver who has sat at a rapid charger watching the percentage tick up knows the quiet arithmetic of the situation.
May 12, 2026
Health
A Custom-Built Vaccine Is Helping the Immune System Fight the Deadliest Brain Cancer
It was a Sunday morning at a youth camp in rural Missouri, and Kim Garland was forgetting things.
May 12, 2026
Physics
The Thermometer So Sensitive It Can Feel a Red Blood Cell Rise One Nanometre
At 20 millikelvin, roughly 270 degrees below zero, a gold-palladium nanowire sits inside a dilution refrigerator at Aalto University in Finland.
May 12, 2026
Health
The Protein That Blocks Nerve Repair After Spinal Cord Injury Has Been Stopped
Nogo-A has been getting in the way for thirty years. The protein sits in the sheaths of nerve fibers throughout the spinal cord and brain, doing nothing obviously useful, yet doing something extremely effective: stopping damaged nerves from healing.
May 12, 2026
Life
Your Houseplant Has Been Solving an Ancient Geometry Problem All Along
Somewhere in your house, or your colleague's, or balanced on a shelf in practically every Instagram flat you've ever seen, there's probably a Chinese money plant.
May 12, 2026
Technology
Mars Helicopter Engineers Push Rotor Blades Past the Sound Barrier to Unlock Heavier Payloads
The tip of a rotor blade is a small thing to hang a mission on. Moving faster than any other part of the aircraft, it does the real work: slapping at molecules of air, trading kinetic energy for lift.
May 11, 2026
Health
Abuse Leaves Measurable Biological Marks in Children's Bodies Within a Year
The tool was never meant for children. The Klemera-Doubal Method, a formula built from blood chemistry and cardiovascular data, was designed to estimate…
May 11, 2026
Life
A New Penguin Species Was Hiding in Plain Sight on One of Earth's Most Remote Islands
It looks like every other gentoo penguin. White belly, black back, that orange bill.
May 11, 2026
Health
The World's Most Prescribed Diabetes Drug Has Been Working in the Wrong Organ
For decades, if you asked a pharmacologist where metformin does its thing, they'd tell you: the liver.
May 11, 2026
Health
The Jellyfish Clogging Fishing Nets Could Be Funding the Future of Medicine
Pull a trammel net out of the Mediterranean and, on a bad morning, half of what comes up isn't fish.
May 11, 2026
Health
Most HIV Strains Can Escape the Immune System's Best Antibodies With a Single Mutation
Seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six. That is how many parallel viral selection experiments researchers at Rockefeller University ran in order to build what is now the most comprehensive map of HIV-1's escape routes from its most feared opponents.
May 11, 2026
Earth & Environment
Carbon Dioxide Cools the Stratosphere. Scientists Have Figured Out Why
There is something genuinely strange about the upper atmosphere. While Earth's surface bakes, the stratosphere has been getting colder, shedding roughly two degrees Celsius since the mid-1980s.
May 11, 2026