Brain & Behavior
Rejuvenating Memory Neurons Restores Learning in Aged and Alzheimer’s Mice
Picture an old mouse, dropped into a pool of milky water, searching for a hidden platform it learned about days ago.
Feb 10, 2026
Life
Asteroid Bennu’s Amino Acids May Have Formed in Frozen Wastes, Not Warm Water
The sample was barely a teaspoon's worth of dark, precious dust. Scooped from the surface of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and delivered to…
Feb 9, 2026
Health
Your Brain’s Immune Cells May Be Secretly Helping It Grow New Neurons
For decades, the brain's resident immune cells were cast as villains whenever they got riled up.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Next War Will Be Won by Whoever Has the Most Expendable Robots
Picture two air forces squaring off. One fields 300 of the most lethal autonomous fighter jets ever built, each bristling with sensors and capable of killing nine enemy aircraft for every one it loses.
Feb 9, 2026
Health
Gut Bacteria Are Making a Sugar That Attacks the Brain
The mice in Aaron Burberry's lab at Case Western Reserve University kept dying. Genetically, they were identical to mice at other institutions around the country.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Chatbots Are Rewriting What You Think About the Products You Buy
You're scrolling through reviews for a new headlamp. Dozens of them, mostly lukewarm, the kind where someone rattles off a list of pros and cons and lands somewhere around "it's fine, I suppose.
Feb 9, 2026
Physics
We Have Found a Giant Lava Tube Hiding Beneath the Surface of Venus
Somewhere on Venus, in a volcanic region named after the Greek goddess of the night, the roof of a tunnel has caved in.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Generosity Paradox: Why We Help More When We Have Less
You're watching television when your phone buzzes. A charity text. Delete or donate?
Feb 9, 2026
Space
The Smell of a Planet Being Born
The planets orbiting the star HR 8799 are, by any reasonable measure, enormous. Each one clocks in at five to ten times the mass of Jupiter, and they swing around their star at vast distances, the closest still 15 times farther out than Earth is from the sun.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
AI Tool Maps the Brain Stem, Our Most Elusive Wiring, for the First Time
Every breath you take, every beat of your heart, the simple fact that you are conscious and reading these words right now, all of it depends on a fistful of nerve cables buried deep inside your brainstem.
Feb 9, 2026
Health
Short Sprints May Beat Relaxation Therapy for Treating Panic Disorder
Imagine your heart hammering, your breath coming in sharp gasps, sweat prickling across your skin.
Feb 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A Few Hours of Brain Training in Your Sixties Could Ward Off Dementia Two Decades Later
Picture yourself at 74, seated in front of a computer screen. Shapes flash up, briefly, then vanish.
Feb 9, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s Magnetic Poles Took Seven Times Longer To Flip Than Anyone Thought
It was on a shift on the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland in 2012, when Yuhji Yamamoto spotted something odd.
Feb 6, 2026
Technology
Orange Peels Clean Up One of Industry’s Messiest Problems
THE SLUDGE sits in a beaker, dark and murky. Add a spoonful of black powder made from discarded orange peels, wait an hour, and the transformation is startling.
Feb 6, 2026