Technology
The Lopsided Exhaust That Could Make or Break Fusion Power
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
Life
Fungi Can Mine Precious Metals From Meteorites in Space
Floating inside the International Space Station, tiny fragments of a meteorite sat bathed in liquid alongside colonies of a common fungus, slowly giving up their palladium.
Feb 17, 2026
Physics
The Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen Is Rewriting What We Know About Cosmic Death
Somewhere in a patch of sky chosen precisely because it is boring, a galaxy is being torn apart.
Feb 17, 2026
Health
Brain Swelling During Alzheimer’s Treatment Could Be a Sign the Drug Is Working
When your brain swells during treatment for Alzheimer's disease, that's usually the point where clinicians pump the brakes.
Feb 17, 2026
Health
Your Pupils Are Starving Your Eyes of Light
Right now, as you read these words, something peculiar is happening inside your eyes.
Feb 17, 2026
Health
New Antibodies Could Finally Block One of the World’s Stealthiest Viruses
Epstein-Barr virus has spent millennia perfecting a trick that makes it almost impossible to target: it latches onto nearly every B cell in our immune system, the very cells we'd want to use to fight it.
Feb 17, 2026
Technology
With Right Prompts, AI Can Analyze Big Data Accurately
A high school student and a master's candidate walk into a biomedical data challenge.
Feb 17, 2026
Technology
Cell Membranes Could Unlock the Ocean’s Hidden Power Supply
Every second of every day, wherever a river empties into the sea, energy vanishes.
Feb 16, 2026
Health
The Vegan Film That Shields Your Hair From Modern Life
There's a fungus that grows on rocks in Chernobyl. Thrives there, actually, feeding on radiation.
Feb 16, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s Strongest Gravity Hole Sits Beneath Antarctica—And Now We Know How It Got There
Gravity feels solid. Dependable. The kind of thing you can count on wherever you plant your feet on Earth's surface.
Feb 16, 2026
Technology
Capturing The Sun in a Bottle
IT’S A SULTRY afternoon in Santa Barbara, and Han Nguyen is looking at a small vial of clear liquid that, quite literally, has the power to boil itself.
Feb 13, 2026
Health
Engineered Listeria Bacteria Could Become a Potent New Weapon Against Cancer
Listeria monocytogenes is, by most reasonable measures, a nasty piece of work. The foodborne pathogen slips into your cells, dodges the immune system's first…
Feb 13, 2026
Brain & Behavior
To Feel Like Yours, a Prosthetic Must First Move Like Yours
The brace was the clever bit. To simulate what it might feel like to have a prosthetic forearm — one that moves on its own, no input from you — Harin…
Feb 13, 2026
Bloggers
Singapore’s First Shipwreck Carried a Record Haul of China’s Rarest Porcelain
The ship itself is gone. Teredo worms saw to that — centuries of boring through waterlogged timber until every plank, every rib, every trace of the hull dissolved into the seabed at the eastern mouth of the Singapore Strait.
Feb 13, 2026