Health
Your Brain on Grandchildren: The Unexpected Cognitive Gift of Caregiving
The Dutch researcher Flavia Chereches was wondering something simple: does babysitting grandkids actually make grandparents smarter?
Jan 26, 2026
Health
A Fish That Grows Old In Months Shows Why Kidneys Age, and How to Stop It
Somewhere in a tank at a research laboratory in Maine, a killifish is showing its age.
Jan 26, 2026
Brain & Behavior
When Cancer Protects the Brain From Alzheimer’s
The epidemiological puzzle kept gnawing at researchers for years. Cancer patients, for all their suffering, seemed to dodge Alzheimer's at remarkably high rates.
Jan 25, 2026
Health
Colorblind Patients Face 52% Higher Mortality From Bladder Cancer
The red liquid in the toilet should be a warning. For most people, spotting blood in their urine is unsettling enough to make them pick up the phone and call a doctor.
Jan 24, 2026
Health
How Estrogen Unlocks Better Weight Loss
She's 56 and caught between two biological truths that don't seem fair. The hot flashes arrive without warning, soaking through clothes at random moments.
Jan 23, 2026
Life
Whales Share Resources to Survive Climate Change
Off Canada's coast, in the cold waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, something extraordinary is quietly happening.
Jan 23, 2026
Health
Engineered Lymph Nodes Offer a Possible Cure for Lymphedema
When a surgeon removes lymph nodes to stop cancer spreading, they solve one problem and create another.
Jan 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
AI Is Making Scientists Stars While Dimming the Light of Discovery
Imagine you’re a PhD student named Leo. You have two choices. You could spend the next five years in a dusty basement lab, trying to figure out a "weird" question about how the very first molecules of life sparked into existence.
Jan 23, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Rise of the AI Swarms: Why Democracy is Under Siege
If you've scrolled through social media lately and felt like a sudden, massive wave of opinion just crashed over a controversial topic, you might've been caught in an AI swarm.
Jan 22, 2026
Physics
Quantum Spookiness Becomes a Tool for Ultra-Precise Sensors
Inside a laboratory at the University of Basel, tiny clouds of atoms hover in a vacuum.
Jan 22, 2026
Health
False Profits: How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Hide Their True Earnings
Three companies control four out of every five prescriptions filled in America. CVS, UnitedHealth, Cigna.
Jan 22, 2026
Life
Ancient Scottish Fossils Reveal a “Third Way” of Life in Earth’s Earliest Forests
Inside a chunk of ancient Scottish stone, a team of researchers has just upended 165 years of fossil detective work.
Jan 22, 2026
Physics
The Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. And What It Reveals About the Early Universe
Somewhere 1.5 billion light-years away, there's a black hole that shouldn't exist.
Jan 22, 2026
Health
Repurposing the Body’s “Recycling System” to Combat Dementia and Brain Cancer
Imagine your body as a vast factory, one where proteins are the essential workers keeping everything running.
Jan 22, 2026