Brain & Behavior
The Officers Most Likely to Cause Problems Already Had a Record
The officers most likely to be sued for misconduct had something else on their resumes: they'd done this job before.
Mar 23, 2026
Technology
Tuskegee Airmen's Neighborhood Was Demolished for a Highway. Now It Exists Again in Virtual Reality
A city is not just roads and buildings. It is the memory of what stood there before.
Mar 23, 2026
Health
Nerves Are Blocking Your Skin from Healing Like an Embryo
Three days before it is born, a mouse can be cut open and healed without a trace.
Mar 20, 2026
Health
Lab-grown Food Pipe Could Save Children's Lives
A strip of pig tissue, stripped bare of every pig cell, sits in a glass chamber while fluid pulses through it at precisely 6.25 millilitres per minute.
Mar 20, 2026
Health
Risk of Addiction Has More to Do With Impulse Control Than the Drug Itself
For most of the past century, the question researchers asked about addiction was the wrong one.
Mar 20, 2026
Health
When Your Brain Is Older Than You Are, Sleep Knows First
The number that may matter most for dementia risk is not the one on your birthday card.
Mar 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
Old-Growth Forests Store Far More Carbon Than We Thought
The soil beneath an old-growth boreal forest is not especially dramatic to look at.
Mar 19, 2026
Uncategorized
Why Leg Prosthetics Have Always Lagged Behind Arm Prosthetics, and What Just Changed
Every time an above-knee amputee thinks about moving the leg that is no longer there, something happens.
Mar 19, 2026
Technology
Thin Films Turn Everyday Vibrations Into Electricity Without Lead
At around 470 degrees Celsius, something shifts inside the thin film. The atoms of bismuth, iron, and oxygen that had arranged themselves in a rhombohedral lattice, a slightly squashed cube that tilts at an angle, begin to slip into a new configuration.
Mar 19, 2026
Technology
Watermelon Seeds Help Turn Wood Waste into Fireproof Walls
For two days, a block of compressed sawdust sits quietly in a mould, doing something rather remarkable.
Mar 19, 2026
Life
Python Blood Could Change How We Lose Weight
Three days after swallowing a rat whole, a Burmese python's blood is doing something extraordinary.
Mar 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
What Antarctic Ice Has Been Holding for Three Million Years
The ice at Allan Hills, a wind-scoured margin of the East Antarctic ice sheet, is not where it started.
Mar 18, 2026
Health
Stopping Your Ozempic, Even Briefly, May Carry a Hidden Heart Risk
One in eight American adults now takes a GLP-1 drug. About half of them will stop within a year.
Mar 18, 2026
Health
The Forgotten Organ That May Decide How Long You Live
Medicine wrote the thymus off decades ago. Tucked behind your sternum, it does its most important work before you reach puberty, training immune cells and then, almost inevitably, shrinking into a lump of fat.
Mar 18, 2026