Health
Your Gut Is Quietly Deciding How Well You Remember Things
Right now, somewhere along your vagus nerve, signals are travelling from your intestine to your hippocampus.
Mar 11, 2026
Health
Dying Eye Cells Can Pull Back from the Brink. Here's the Machinery That Saves Them
The cell death program is almost ostentatiously thorough. Once a cell commits to apoptosis, the internal machinery fires in sequence: the mitochondria fragment…
Mar 11, 2026
Earth & Environment
Net Zero Is Not Enough. We Need to Pull Carbon from the Air for Centuries
A target, it turns out, can be two entirely different things. It can be the finish line (the point at which you stop and declare success). Or it can be a waypoint, a necessary passage on a longer road whose end you cannot yet see clearly.
Mar 11, 2026
Health
Matcha: The Cup That Quiets the Sneeze
The powder is an implausible colour. Chlorophyll-dense, almost fluorescent, it turns water the shade of a well-lit aquarium when you whisk it in.
Mar 11, 2026
Social Sciences
How Greg Abbott Bused 100,000 Migrants Directly Into Trump's Electoral Column
Three percentage points. In a presidential election decided by margins thin enough to fit inside a rounding error, three percentage points is not a trivial number.
Mar 10, 2026
Health
The Gut Bacterium That Builds Your Muscles
The cells responsible for your grip strength don't live in your arms. Some of them, it turns out, live in your gut.
Mar 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The World's Most Famous Magic Mushroom Has a Wild African Cousin Nobody Recognised
Cathy Sharp found the first one in January 2013, growing out of decomposed herbivore dung in the rocky, mixed-deciduous woodland of the Matobo Hills in southern Zimbabwe.
Mar 10, 2026
Health
The Cells of the Depressed Brain Are Working Too Hard
Inside every cell, tiny molecular machines are running more or less continuously, churning out a molecule called adenosine triphosphate.
Mar 10, 2026
Health
The Protein Shapes That Could Reveal Alzheimer's, Years Before Symptoms Appear
Every protein in your bloodstream has a shape. Not just a composition, a shape: a tightly folded three-dimensional structure that changes depending on the molecular environment around it.
Mar 10, 2026
Health
Low Testosterone Is Linked to Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer Becoming More Aggressive
The appointment goes something like this. A man has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.
Mar 10, 2026
Health
The Protein That Was Supposed to Shut Things Down Is Actually Switching Them On
For decades, SMAD7 had a reputation. It was an inhibitor, a brake pedal in the cellular signalling network, a protein whose job was to dampen down the TGF-beta pathway and keep tissue growth under control.
Mar 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Electroacupuncture Eases Spinal Cord Injury by Cutting Off a Deadly Calcium Flood in Neurons
The needle goes in at a point called Shenshu, 5 millimetres to the side of the second lumbar vertebra, roughly at the small of the back.
Mar 9, 2026
Technology
A New Tool Hides Singers' Voices from the AI Systems Trying to Copy Them
The spectrogram tells the story before your ears do. On the left, a waveform dense with harmonic structure, the coloured bands of a human voice in song, each vowel a warm smear of overlapping frequencies.
Mar 9, 2026
Health
Good Cholesterol in Your Gut Could Protect the Liver After Bowel Surgery
Every day, the small intestine does something extraordinary. Tucked inside its lining, enterocytes (the flat, tile-like cells that line the gut wall) are busy assembling parcels.
Mar 9, 2026