The meds arrived with considerable fanfare. Semaglutide, tirzepatide, the whole GLP-1 family: drugs that could, apparently, do something medicine had never managed well before.
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On January 10, 2024, a dim star in the constellation Gemini began to disappear. Not dramatically, not all at once, but gradually, its light thinning by degrees as something cold and dark slid in front of it.
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For any hospital chief executive watching the balance sheet erode, the pitch from a management consulting firm must be hard to resist.
May 5, 2026
Every yellowtail snapper excretes ammonia. It cannot help doing so; it is a metabolic inevitability, the nitrogen-rich byproduct of a fish eating, breathing, living at commercial density in a tank on Virginia Key, Florida.
May 5, 2026
Sitting on the ocean floor, anchored to the continental slope of North America, a cluster of instruments has been recording something that nobody particularly wanted to see.
May 5, 2026
Every few minutes, a living cell does something quietly extraordinary: it sheds tiny membrane bubbles into the fluid around it.
May 5, 2026
One tenth of one percent. That is all it takes. Out of billions of parameters inside a large language model, only a tiny, specially chosen sliver, roughly 0.1%, carries the information that actually matters when the model needs to learn something new.
May 5, 2026
There's a mineral called bustamentite that almost nobody studies. It forms in flat hexagonal plates, grows readily in warm water, and turns up as an unwanted contaminant in perovskite solar cells.
May 5, 2026
During meiosis, the process by which sperm are made, chromosomes must sort themselves with extraordinary precision.
May 5, 2026
Six dollars and fifty cents. That is, give or take, the largest fine the federal government has ever levied on a Medicare Advantage insurer per patient enrolled.
May 5, 2026
Run an AI model across a human chromosome and what you get back looks like a seismograph readout: peaks and troughs, quiet stretches interrupted by jagged eruptions of ancient time.
May 5, 2026
Somewhere in the gap between a person deciding where to live and a nation's wealth clustering in a handful of cities, something gets lost.
May 5, 2026
The numbers came back wrong. Researchers at the University of New Mexico had been methodically working through preserved brain tissue, running the usual…
May 5, 2026
Somewhere in the naming of animals, science and theology have always made uneasy company.
May 5, 2026
