Health
Your Outlook on Life May Help Determine Whether You Develop Dementia
Dementia has no reliable cure, no vaccine, and only a handful of drugs that slow its progression modestly in some patients.
Apr 8, 2026
Earth & Environment
Your Car Engine Is Heating the City Around You, and We Can Now Measure How Much
Every time a driver brakes, something happens to the energy involved. It doesn't disappear.
Apr 8, 2026
Health
Fear Alone Can Harm an Unborn Baby, Fukushima Data Reveals
On March 15, 2011, no radiation reached Osaka. The reactors at Fukushima were 850 kilometres to the northeast, and the atmospheric release, while serious, stayed largely contained to a much smaller zone.
Apr 8, 2026
Health
A Single Letter in the Genetic Code Was Causing Seizures. Scientists Just Corrected It
Inside every neuron in the human brain, sodium channels open and close in milliseconds, letting ions flood through in precisely timed pulses that generate thought, movement, sensation.
Apr 7, 2026
Health
Turmeric and Ginger Coatings on Titanium Implants Kill Bacteria and Boost Bone Growth
The titanium cylinder is about the width of a pencil, four millimetres tall, and milled to fit precisely into a drilled channel in living bone.
Apr 7, 2026
Technology
Science’s AI Revolution Is Being Strangled by a 400-Year-Old Publishing System
Knowledge, it turns out, has a speed limit. Not the speed at which we can generate it or even analyse it, but the speed at which we are permitted, institutionally, to trust it.
Apr 7, 2026
Technology
Old Car Battery Acid Can Break Down Plastic Waste and Generate Clean Hydrogen
Every three to five years, a lead-acid car battery reaches the end of its useful life.
Apr 6, 2026
Physics
Astronomers Just Found 33,000 Hydrogen Halos the Early Universe Was Hiding
For roughly two decades, astronomers studying the early universe's enormous halos of glowing hydrogen gas had been working from a sample so small it barely qualified as one.
Apr 6, 2026
Health
A Diabetes Drug May Mimic Exercise to Help Prostate Cancer Patients Stay Healthier
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is, metabolically speaking, a kind of managed catastrophe.
Apr 6, 2026
Life
Rare Scent Keeps a Fragile Partnership from Falling Apart
Dihydroedulan I had never been anybody's main attraction until Kenji Suetsugu and his team at Kobe University started unpacking the chemistry of a climbing plant called Smilax insularis.
Apr 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Broken Mirror: Why Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Don’t Tell the Same Story Across All Bodies
Black and Hispanic older adults accumulate tau tangles in the memory-critical regions of their brains years before their white peers do.
Apr 5, 2026
Health
Childhood Seizures Begin in the Womb, New Research Reveals
Before the first seizure, before the distinctive spike-wave burst on an EEG, before a child shows any sign of trouble, the damage is already in progress.
Apr 5, 2026
Physics
Electrons in New Crystals Behave as If They Live in Four Dimensions
The numbers didn't add up. When Kevin Nuckolls and his colleagues at MIT pressed a tiny crystal against a magnetic field at the National High Magnetic Field…
Apr 5, 2026
Health
Injectable Particle Makes Surgery Safer for Newborns
It is, under a scanning electron microscope, a rather unremarkable-looking thing.
Apr 4, 2026