Health
A White House Briefing Changed How Doctors Prescribed Drugs Overnight
The numbers in Jeremy Faust's spreadsheet shouldn't have moved. Not like that. Not that fast.
Mar 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s Warming Rate Has Nearly Doubled Since 2015
The numbers had been there all along, buried in five separate global temperature records stretching back to 1880. What kept scientists from seeing the pattern wasn't a lack of data.
Mar 6, 2026
Life
Purple Martins Caught in Texas Deep Freeze Died from Cold, Not Starvation
In the backyard birdhouses of Texas and Louisiana, purple martins arrive every February like a kind of promise.
Mar 6, 2026
Health
Metabolic Enzymes Found Living on Cancer Cell DNA Hint at New Treatment Routes
Deep inside a cancer cell's nucleus, where biologists have long assumed only the genome and its dedicated machinery hold court, researchers have found something that shouldn't be there.
Mar 6, 2026
Health
PET Scans Reveal How Ketamine Reshapes the Depressed Brain
For about 30 percent of people with depression, antidepressants simply don't work.
Mar 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Protein That Tags Toxic Tau for Destruction Could Point to New Dementia Therapies
Right now, somewhere in your brain, a neuron is doing something the others aren't.
Mar 6, 2026
Health
DNA Has a Language. A 40-Billion-Parameter Model Has Now Learned to Speak It
All of life, every bacterium, every oak tree, every nervous system that has ever fired, encodes its instructions in the same four-letter alphabet.
Mar 6, 2026
Technology
Sixty Years After Its Discovery in a Meteorite, Scientists Make Hexagonal Diamond in Bulk
When the Canyon Diablo meteorite punched through the Arizona desert some 50,000 years ago, it carried with it a strange passenger.
Mar 6, 2026
Technology
Molecular Vibrations Catapult Electrons Across Solar Materials in Under 20 Femtoseconds
One quadrillionth of a second is not, by any normal reckoning, a useful unit of time.
Mar 5, 2026
Health
Pig Tongues and Old Newspapers Reveal the Hidden Dangers of Licking Frozen Metal
Anders Hagen Jarmund does not remember whether it was a signpost or a lamppost. What he remembers is the licking, and then the sticking, and the panic that followed.
Mar 5, 2026
Technology
New Gravitational Wave Catalog More Than Doubles Known Cosmic Collisions
In November 2023, a faint shudder passed through a pair of L-shaped tunnels in Washington state and Louisiana.
Mar 5, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Eye Tracking Reveals the Unconscious Know-How Hidden in Expert Performance
You probably can't explain how you ride a bike. Not properly, anyway. You could tell a beginner where to sit, when to push off, roughly how the gears work.
Mar 4, 2026
Life
Why Chimps Are Captivated by Crystals, and What It Says About Us
Did Nature’s Only Straight Lines Kickstart the Human Mind? Quartz crystals have been turning up at hominin sites for the better part of a million years.
Mar 4, 2026
Health
Baby Teeth Stem Cells Reverse Motor Deficits in Cerebral Palsy Model
The damage happens fast. Oxygen stops reaching the newborn brain, blood flow collapses, and within minutes the injury is done.
Mar 4, 2026