The dishes of the Atacama Compact Array were pointed roughly toward the inner solar system when the signal arrived: faint millimetre-wavelength light, bent into a distinctive spectral fingerprint, rising out of noise.
Mar 9, 2026
On a supercomputer in Illinois, a cell is being born. Not literally (no membranes are manufactured, no DNA is physically copied), but inside a cluster of…
Mar 9, 2026
The packet is on the shelf. You are pregnant, you have a fever, and paracetamol (acetaminophen) is the one painkiller everyone agrees is safe to take.
Mar 9, 2026
The needle goes in at an angle, pauses for roughly three seconds, and withdraws.
Mar 9, 2026
Lunch arrives: a bread roll, a bowl of edamame, a corn tortilla on the side. None of it is you.
Mar 9, 2026
Slapping a label on AI-generated content is the regulatory world's current favourite answer to the misinformation problem.
Mar 9, 2026
The left femur is about as long as your finger. Seventy-five millimetres of hollow bone, light enough that a poodle-sized animal could carry it without much…
Mar 9, 2026
On the monitor, the numbers were already moving. A patient with epilepsy, electrodes threaded deep into the hippocampus, had just finished twenty minutes on a pedal exerciser beside their hospital bed, heart rate sitting at roughly 58 per cent of its maximum.
Mar 9, 2026
Cool a magnetic material down far enough and its ions have to make a choice. Ferromagnetic, lining up in the same direction like soldiers called to attention, or antiferromagnetic, alternating north-south-north-south like a perfectly argued disagreement.
Mar 7, 2026
The leg comes off cleanly. A wooden plank, applied with enough force, severs one of the four limbs from the machine's body.
Mar 7, 2026
Jessica Sunshine knew something was off. The images from NASA's DART spacecraft looked clean enough in the raw data, but once her team at the University of…
Mar 7, 2026
The scale is, in a sense, a liar. It tells you how much you weigh, but it cannot tell you what you're losing.
Mar 6, 2026
The bottle looks ordinary enough. Press the nozzle, and a fine mist settles over a glistening organ surface, disappearing almost instantly into the wet tissue.
Mar 6, 2026
The numbers in Jeremy Faust's spreadsheet shouldn't have moved. Not like that. Not that fast.
Mar 6, 2026
