Health
Why Your Statin Package Insert is Likely Wrong
Christina Reith opens spreadsheets full of adverse events the way most people scroll through social media: methodically, looking for patterns that others miss.
Feb 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
When the Sun Sneezes, Does Earth Crack?
ON New year's Day 2024, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake tore through Japan's Noto Peninsula.
Feb 6, 2026
Technology
When AI Dreams of Neanderthals, It’s Still Stuck in the 1960s
ASK your phone to show you a Neanderthal, and you'll get a hairy, hunched brute that looks more chimpanzee than human.
Feb 6, 2026
Physics
Reading Quantum Timestamps Hidden in Electron Spin
LIGHT hits copper, an electron escapes. The whole thing is over in 26 attoseconds: so fast that even light, travelling at its cosmic speed limit, wouldn't cross the width of a small virus.
Feb 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Bonobo Who Can Pretend
THE EXPERIMENTER tips an empty pitcher over two transparent cups, miming the familiar motion of pouring juice.
Feb 6, 2026
Physics
Why Live Football Raises Your Pulse: Measured Down to the Heartbeat
Arminia Bielefeld fans knew this season was different. Their third-division club had somehow scraped through to face VfB Stuttgart in the German cup final on May 24, 2025. Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
Feb 6, 2026
Physics
What If There’s No Black Hole at the Centre of Our Galaxy?
At the heart of the Milky Way, something massive is warping space itself. For decades, the presumed culprit has been Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole with four million times the sun's mass.
Feb 6, 2026
Health
RNA Nanoparticles Wipe Out Lung Tumours in Mice
THE MICE were nearly cancer-free. Twenty-six days after researchers injected them with aggressive colorectal cancer cells, cells engineered to spread to the lungs, the tumours had almost completely disappeared.
Feb 6, 2026
Technology
I’m Walking Here! Inside the First Complete Map of New York’s Pedestrians
WHERE cars go, cities have always measured. Federal highway funds flow to states based partly on vehicle miles traveled.
Feb 6, 2026
Health
AI Reads Brain Scans in Seconds With Near-Human Accuracy
The brain scan takes three seconds to read. Not three minutes, not three hours: three seconds on a single graphics processing unit.
Feb 6, 2026
Life
Hidden Galaxy Harbors Organic Chemistry Factory
THE NUCLEUS of galaxy IRAS 07251-0248 sits buried beneath such vast amounts of gas and dust that conventional telescopes can barely glimpse what's happening inside.
Feb 6, 2026
Technology
Physicists Capture the First Direct View of Superconducting Electrons Jiggling in Unison
The superconducting electrons were jiggling. Not bouncing randomly like atoms in hot water, but oscillating together, a trillion times per second, like a single coherent wave rippling through the material.
Feb 4, 2026
Health
Hidden Network Behind Parkinson’s Could Change How We Treat It
The brain has a secret. Threaded through the motor cortex, the strip of grey matter that controls movement, lies a network that nobody properly recognised…
Feb 4, 2026
Health
Scientists Crack the Rules of Gene Regulation
Your DNA contains roughly 20,000 genes, each one a recipe for building proteins.
Feb 4, 2026