Health
Yo-Yo Dieting Might Be Worse Than You Think
The cold room sat at precisely 18 degrees Celsius, cool enough to be uncomfortable but not quite cold enough to make you shiver.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
Triple Threat Malaria Drug Kills at Every Stage
Anna Caroline Aguiar leans over blood samples fresh from infected patients in Rondônia, Brazil's malaria heartland.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
The Double Mutation That Unlocks Parkinson’s Disease
Hugo Bellen's lab watches fruit flies die in slow motion. Not all of them, just the ones carrying two particular genetic flaws.
Feb 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Fear Has A Smell, and Horses Know It
THE horse stands quietly as the experimenter approaches, a cotton pad stapled inside a lycra muzzle fitted over her nostrils.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
That Soothing Pink Noise May Be Sabotaging Your Sleep
The bedroom speakers hum with steady, static-like sound—pink noise, supposedly the key to deeper, more restorative sleep.
Feb 2, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Babies Sort the World at Two Months Old
Baby Eli settles into a comfy beanbag, sound-cancelling headphones snug over his ears.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
Surgical Tweak Slashes Ovarian Cancer Risk Nearly 80%
The fallopian tubes don't look like much. Two slender ducts, each roughly 10 centimetres long, connecting ovaries to uterus.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
Cells Reorganizing Their Factories May Explain Why We Age
IN YOUR body right now, millions of tiny factories are quietly dismantling themselves.
Feb 2, 2026
Health
Tiny Bubbles Under the Skin: The Acne Patch That Rewrites Drug Delivery
THE MICRONEEDLES dissolve within minutes, but not before they've done something conventional acne treatments struggle with: deliver three entirely different drugs exactly where they're needed.
Jan 30, 2026
Health
How the 2024 Election Changed Who Wants a Gun
In the first weeks of January 2025, Michael Anestis and his team at Rutgers University's New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center were watching something unexpected unfold.
Jan 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why Girls Thrive at School While Boys Struggle to Sit Still
THE Norwegian classroom looks much the same as any other; small desks, colourful posters, windows letting in weak winter light.
Jan 30, 2026
Earth & Environment
America’s Gas Pipelines Face a Death Spiral as Customers Switch to Electric
Buried in the plumbing of a petroleum refinery somewhere in Texas, deep in the maze of steel towers and pipes that crack crude oil into usable fuels, sits a threshold no one designed for.
Jan 30, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why Some Brain Cells Survive Alzheimer’s
Sarah Kim watched the neurons on her screen, some glowing brightly with toxic protein clumps, others somehow pristine despite the same genetic mutation.
Jan 30, 2026
Health
AI Catches More Breast Cancers and Cuts Radiologist Workload by Nearly Half
OVER 100,000 Swedish women rolled through mammography machines between 2021 and 2022, each one randomly assigned to have their scans read either by two radiologists working together or by artificial intelligence backing up a single human reader.
Jan 30, 2026