Health
Repeated Low-Level Blasts in Military Training Are Linked to Later Anger and Aggression
The fuse, in this story, was never lit by a single explosion. That is what made it so easy to miss.
Jun 19, 2026
Health
Fish Oil Reaches the Brain but Fails to Slow Alzheimer's Decline
Six months in, the capsules were clearly working. Spinal fluid drawn from older adults swallowing two grams of DHA a day showed the omega-3 piling up exactly…
Jun 19, 2026
Life
What Animals Are Saying to Each Other When They Team Up Across the Species Line
A warthog drops to its knees in the dust, then rolls onto its side and goes still, flank exposed to the sun.
Jun 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
Palm, Coconut and Soybean Drive Most of the Biodiversity Loss Hidden in Everyday Products
Open a kitchen cupboard, a bathroom cabinet, a bag of animal feed, and you are looking at a ledger of extinction.
Jun 19, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Years on Instagram May Loosen Your Brain's Grip on Which Face Is Yours
Put on a virtual reality headset, watch a stranger's cheek being stroked while a researcher strokes your own in perfect time, and something strange happens.
Jun 19, 2026
Technology
Korean Database Rebuild Aims to Cure AI's Habit of Making Things Up
Ask an AI assistant what a new beekeeper needs to know, and it will happily oblige.
Jun 18, 2026
Space
Coldest Alien World We Have Ever Photographed Has Skies Full of Salt
For more than a decade, one of the strangest worlds in our cosmic neighborhood kept slipping out of reach.
Jun 18, 2026
Health
Most Probiotics Aren't Chosen for What They Actually Do, a Sweeping Pharmacy Survey Finds
The evidence is mixed and often thin. This survey of 352 US products found no consistent link between which bacteria a supplement contains and the health…
Jun 18, 2026
Physics
A Ghost Particle from Cosmic Noon Points to a Hidden Class of Neutrino Factory
At 18 minutes past six in the evening on 22 September 2021, a single particle slammed into the ice beneath the South Pole.
Jun 17, 2026
Health
Why the Weight-Loss Drug Revolution Still Needs Surgeons, Scopes and a Plan
Start with a number that ought to give the whole boom pause: within a year of starting one of the new weight-loss injections, roughly two-thirds of people taking them for obesity alone have stopped.
Jun 17, 2026
Life
Most City Mice Now Carry Genes That Help Them Survive Rat Poison
A mouse finds the bait before you do. It is curious by nature, drawn to anything new in its territory, so the little block of poison tucked behind the refrigerator is less a threat than an invitation.
Jun 17, 2026
Health
Alzheimer's Gene Doesn't Behave the Same Way in Everyone
On a PET scan, amyloid shows up as a wash of colour across the cortex, brighter where the sticky protein has gathered into plaques.
Jun 17, 2026
Technology
Hiding Electronics Inside a Cockroach Makes It a Better Robot
The gap was eight millimetres. The cockroach was taller than that, and it knew it, in whatever way a cockroach knows things.
Jun 17, 2026
Technology
Fluffy Fabric Keeps Heat In When It's Freezing and Lets It Out When It's Not
Pull a tuft of it apart and it looks like cotton wool, all airy white fibres that spring back when you squeeze them.
Jun 17, 2026