Brain & Behavior
Dirty Air Tied to Alzheimer's Incidence
Every breath you take in a polluted city delivers something more than oxygen. Laced through the air are particles so fine they float for days, particles…
Feb 18, 2026
Technology
Capturing The Sun in a Bottle
IT’S A SULTRY afternoon in Santa Barbara, and Han Nguyen is looking at a small vial of clear liquid that, quite literally, has the power to boil itself.
Feb 13, 2026
Health
Engineered Listeria Bacteria Could Become a Potent New Weapon Against Cancer
Listeria monocytogenes is, by most reasonable measures, a nasty piece of work. The foodborne pathogen slips into your cells, dodges the immune system's first…
Feb 13, 2026
Social Sciences
Singapore’s First Shipwreck Carried a Record Haul of China’s Rarest Porcelain
The ship itself is gone. Teredo worms saw to that — centuries of boring through waterlogged timber until every plank, every rib, every trace of the hull dissolved into the seabed at the eastern mouth of the Singapore Strait.
Feb 13, 2026
Health
Melanoma's Hidden Architect Builds Blood Vessels and Shuts Down Immune Defences
Before you were born, a protein called HOXD13 helped shape your fingers and toes.
Feb 11, 2026
Life
Asteroid Bennu's Amino Acids May Have Formed in Frozen Wastes, Not Warm Water
The sample was barely a teaspoon's worth of dark, precious dust. Scooped from the surface of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and delivered to…
Feb 9, 2026
Health
Gut Bacteria Are Making a Sugar That Attacks the Brain
The mice in Aaron Burberry's lab at Case Western Reserve University kept dying. Genetically, they were identical to mice at other institutions around the country.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
AI Tool Maps the Brain Stem, Our Most Elusive Wiring, for the First Time
Every breath you take, every beat of your heart, the simple fact that you are conscious and reading these words right now, all of it depends on a fistful of nerve cables buried deep inside your brainstem.
Feb 9, 2026
Physics
What If There's No Black Hole at the Centre of Our Galaxy?
At the heart of the Milky Way, something massive is warping space itself. For decades, the presumed culprit has been Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole with four million times the sun's mass.
Feb 6, 2026
Life
Bat Caves In Cambodia Hide Clues To A Pig Pandemic’s Mysterious Origins
The Battambang bat caves draw tourists from around the world. Each evening, thousands of bats pour from the limestone cliffs in swirling clouds, a spectacle that fills the Cambodian sky.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
Tiny Bubbles Under the Skin: The Acne Patch That Rewrites Drug Delivery
THE MICRONEEDLES dissolve within minutes, but not before they've done something conventional acne treatments struggle with: deliver three entirely different drugs exactly where they're needed.
Jan 30, 2026
Life
The Fungus Munching Through Mountains Of Toxic Waste
In a laboratory at Nanjing Agricultural University, a common soil fungus is doing something chemical engineers have struggled with for decades.
Jan 28, 2026
Health
New Technique Unlocks Gene Therapy for Hundreds of Conditions
Gene therapy just leapt past a barrier that's held it back for years. Researchers in China have worked out how to pack oversized genes into the viral delivery…
Jan 28, 2026
Health
Engineered Lymph Nodes Offer a Possible Cure for Lymphedema
When a surgeon removes lymph nodes to stop cancer spreading, they solve one problem and create another.
Jan 23, 2026