ScienceBlog.com

Earth & Environment

How Antarctic Sea Ice Grew for Decades Before Suddenly Collapsing

The planet was warming. The Southern Ocean was warming. And yet, from the late 1970s right through to 2015, the sea ice ringing Antarctica kept spreading.

Mar 28, 2026

Health

Gut Cells May Be Training Immune Troops to Attack the Brain

Something is happening in the small intestine long before the first nerve fibre starts to fray.

Mar 28, 2026

Technology

The Light-Speed Computers That Keep Breaking in the Lab Have a Fix

The laser pulse takes roughly a nanosecond to pass through the glass. That's the part that works perfectly.

Mar 27, 2026

Brain & Behavior

Your Brain’s Alpha Rhythm Slows Because Its Wiring Does Too

Start with a resting-state EEG recording and you have, essentially, a dense electrical mystery.

Mar 27, 2026

Brain & Behavior

The Personality Test That Doesn’t Know What to Do With You Is About to Get a Lot Smarter

The categories came first. That's always how it works in personality psychology: you decide there are four kinds of people, or five, or sixteen, and then you build a questionnaire that sorts everyone into one of them.

Mar 27, 2026

Physics

Saturn’s Northern Lights Are Running a Heat Pump That Fooled Scientists for Decades

On the night of November 29, 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope turned toward Saturn and held its gaze for the better part of a Saturnian day, roughly ten Earth hours, staring at the planet's north pole.

Mar 27, 2026

Health

Zapping Melanoma Cells with Terahertz Light Rewires Their Energy Economy Without Killing Them

Start with a network map and you can see something odd. A cascade of molecular connections threads outward from a handful of membrane proteins, touching…

Mar 27, 2026

Health

A Tiny Implant That Makes Your Medicines Could Replace Daily Drug Regimens

Consider what managing HIV looks like on a good day. A pill in the morning, maybe two, taken at roughly the same time so the drug concentration in your blood stays within the narrow window where it actually works.

Mar 27, 2026

Bloggers

Crystal Chemistry Could Make Perovskite Solar Efficient Enough to Compete With Silicon

Think about what happens inside a solar cell the moment light hits it. Photons jostle electrons loose from their atoms, and those electrons have to travel, quickly, through a crystalline lattice before they recombine and the energy is wasted as heat.

Mar 27, 2026

Life

Ancient Fish Used Their Lungs to Hear Underwater

Sound moves differently through water than through air. It travels faster, farther, and with more force, and the problem for a fish is that its body, being mostly water itself, offers the waves nothing to push against.

Mar 26, 2026

Health

Eating the Same Meals on Repeat May Help You Lose More Weight Than Dietary Variety Does

The standard advice has always been variety. Eat a rainbow of vegetables. Rotate your proteins.

Mar 26, 2026

Technology

A New Class of Carbon Material Can Release Captured CO2 Using Only Waste Heat

Two nitrogen atoms, sitting next to each other on the jagged edge of a carbon surface.

Mar 26, 2026

Physics

The Universe’s Black Holes Have Stopped Gorging. We Finally Know Why.

Point a telescope at 1.3 million galaxies spread across the observable universe and you are not really looking at space.

Mar 25, 2026

Technology

Dark Pulse Hiding Inside Chip Could Rewrite How We Measure Everything

Physicists had been chasing it for almost three decades. The mathematics said it should exist: a peculiar knot in a light field, stable and self-sustaining, sitting at the boundary between two phases of oscillation that are mirror images of each other.

Mar 25, 2026