Health
Researchers Restore Dying Parkinson’s Brain Cells by Blocking Protein Interaction
Deep inside the brain's dopamine-producing cells, a toxic encounter is playing out.
Jan 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Why Women View AI with Greater Caution than Men
It's a simple choice, the kind designed to reveal something fundamental about how you think.
Jan 20, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Science of the Pause: Computational Mapping Reveals the Hidden Engineering Behind Stand-Up Comedy
The comedian takes a breath, counts to three in her head, and delivers the punchline about hippies managing finances.
Jan 20, 2026
Health
Can Hope Actually Heal? How Your Brain’s Reward System Might Boost Immunity
The brain scan showed something unexpected. The volunteer was lying inside the fMRI machine, mentally rehearsing strategies to activate his reward circuitry: imagining a tropical holiday, recalling moments of joy.
Jan 20, 2026
Health
New Finger-Prick Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Could Replace Costly Brain Scans and Improve Trial Diversity
Dr. Michael Sandberg's mother loved bridge. She loved driving. And she loved the independence both gave her.
Jan 20, 2026
Health
Shingles Vaccine May Slow Biological Aging and Chronic Inflammation
Jung Ki Kim first noticed the pattern while looking through blood samples from thousands of older Americans.
Jan 20, 2026
Technology
Mirror Training: How a Humanoid Robot Learned to Lip Sync Using AI and a Reflection
The silicon lips moved precisely with each syllable, forming the rounded shape for "hello," the closed position for "world.
Jan 19, 2026
Health
Scientists Identify the Three-Part Genetic Mutation Responsible for Floppy Dog Ears
Those droopy ears that make a Basset Hound so lovable? They come from a surprisingly complex genetic puzzle that researchers at the University of Georgia have started to solve.
Jan 19, 2026
Technology
Unencrypted Skies: How $800 of Equipment Intercepts Military Data and Private Calls via Satellite
Two computer scientists at UC San Diego pointed an $800 satellite dish at the sky and started listening.
Jan 19, 2026
Technology
What Happens When ChatGPT Rolls the Dungeons & Dragons Dice
The goblin taunts are getting weird. "Heh—shiny man's gonna bleed!" one hollers mid-combat, its voice emerging from Claude 3.5 Haiku rather than any human throat.
Jan 19, 2026
Health
Long-term Mental Health Outcomes of Kurdish Chemical Gas Attacks
ONE STORY still stays vividly in Ibrahim Mohammed's mind. A man suffering from acute respiratory problems due to chemical exposure, his scars as deep in his mind as in his body.
Jan 19, 2026
Social Sciences
Parents are changing their tune about children’s profanity
YOUR 8-YEAR-OLD drops an F-bomb at the dinner table. You freeze, fork halfway to your mouth.
Jan 19, 2026
Technology
When Matter Meets Antimatter in Perfect Symmetry
The diffraction pattern shouldn't exist. Physicists have long wondered if positronium, that fleeting marriage of electron and positron, could produce the telltale stripes and bands that confirm wave-like behaviour in free space.
Jan 19, 2026
Technology
The Wobbly Achilles’ Heel of Unbreakable Codes
The laser beam wavers, just a fraction of a degree. A mechanical vibration, perhaps, or a gust of atmospheric turbulence.
Jan 19, 2026