Somewhere in a cord blood bank, a small bag of frozen cells carries a genetic signature that could save a leukaemia patient's life or, just as readily, turn their own transplant against them.
Feb 20, 2026
IT’S a biological stowaway that almost every adult on Earth carries, a silent passenger nestled within the very immune cells meant to protect us.
Feb 20, 2026
The tissue samples came from many places — diagnostic labs in Germany, pathology departments in New Zealand, veterinary hospitals across the UK — but some of the most personal contributions came from the researchers themselves.
Feb 20, 2026
Sometime in your fifties or sixties, without any warning you'd notice, a protein in your blood may begin to change.
Feb 20, 2026
Ryan McLaughlin wanted to know what happened inside a rat's brain when it got stoned.
Feb 19, 2026
Every breath you take in a polluted city delivers something more than oxygen. Laced through the air are particles so fine they float for days, particles…
Feb 18, 2026
Every Wegovy tablet contains two active stories. There's semaglutide, the celebrated molecule that mimics a gut hormone and quietly persuades your brain to stop wanting seconds.
Feb 18, 2026
The worm had no idea it was upending materials science. Nereis virens, the common sandworm, builds its jaw from a tough biological composite laced with zinc ions.
Feb 18, 2026
In the 1990s, an agricultural scientist named William Muir set out to breed better egg-laying hens.
Feb 18, 2026
IT IS cold, dark and very old inside the Scarisoara ice cave. Located deep in the Apuseni mountains of Romania, this subterranean cathedral houses a massive block of ice that has been slowly accumulating for over 10,000 years.
Feb 17, 2026
IT LOOKS like a three-dimensional puzzle of a prehistoric giant. Seishiro Tada sits at his desk at the University of Tokyo Museum, Surrounded by 3D-printed fragments of a Triceratops skull.
Feb 17, 2026
GEN-ICHIRO ARIMURA is staring at a series of illuminated plots in his lab at the Tokyo University of Science, and the numbers are doing something extraordinary.
Feb 17, 2026
IT TAKES just a few clicks in Photoshop to do it. You take a life-like humanoid, find the area around the sockets, and—snip—the eyes are gone.
Feb 17, 2026
Somewhere inside a doughnut-shaped machine in California, a stream of superheated plasma is hurtling along at roughly 88 kilometres per second.
Feb 17, 2026
