Health
Scientists Grow a Breathing Lung on a Chip Using One Person’s Cells
Every few seconds, your lungs expand and contract without you thinking about it.
Jan 2, 2026
Health
Tumor Bacteria May Sabotage Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
Most patients with head and neck cancer see little benefit from immunotherapy, even as these drugs revolutionize care for others.
Jan 2, 2026
Bloggers
China’s Fusion Reactor Breaks Density Ceiling That Has Limited Tokamaks for Decades
Fusion plasmas have been hitting the same density wall for 40 years. Push the fuel concentration too high and the reactor fails within seconds, ending the shot in a cascade of instability.
Jan 2, 2026
Social Sciences
Flames, Bone, and Memory: Africa’s Oldest Cremation Revealed
Thirty kilograms of deadwood and grass. Temperatures exceeding 500 degrees Celsius.
Jan 2, 2026
Health
Ultrasound Chip Beneath the Skin Tracks Blood Pressure in Real Time
Blood pressure changes constantly throughout the day, spiking during a stressful meeting, dipping during sleep, surging during exercise.
Jan 1, 2026
Health
Scientists Turn Liposuction Fat Into Working Mini-Organs
Fat isn't glamorous. We vacuum it out during liposuction, toss it as medical waste, think of it as the body's storage locker.
Dec 31, 2025
Technology
Crab Shells Solve the Leaky Battery Problem
Heat storage materials have a fundamental problem: they leak. When phase change materials absorb energy by melting, they tend to flow out of their containers, fouling equipment and degrading performance.
Dec 31, 2025
Technology
Satellites Are Learning to Think for Themselves in Orbit
Modern satellites face an absurd problem: they collect terabytes of high-resolution imagery every orbit, but often get just ten minutes to talk to ground stations.
Dec 30, 2025
Health
How New Herpes Drugs Jam a Virus’s Replication Engine
When immunocompromised patients develop herpes infections that no longer respond to standard antivirals, physicians often run out of options.
Dec 30, 2025
Physics
Fusion Reactors Could Crack Dark Matter Mystery That Stumped TV Physicists
In the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," fictional physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter spent several episodes scribbling equations on whiteboards…
Dec 30, 2025
Life
Fungus Disarms Bark Beetles’ Stolen Chemical Weapons
Bark beetles have spent millennia perfecting a survival trick: they eat spruce tree defenses and weaponize them against their own predators.
Dec 30, 2025
Technology
Chemists Solve Decades-Old Problem in Molecular Shape Control
In drug design and advanced materials, a molecule's three-dimensional shape often determines everything.
Dec 30, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Your Brain Turns Up the Volume When It Starts Losing Tissue
In some parts of the aging brain, the opposite of what you might expect happens.
Dec 30, 2025
Brain & Behavior
The Brain’s Rotten-Egg Gas May Be Key to Stopping Memory Loss
At two months old, the mice were brilliant navigators. By six months, they were hopelessly lost.
Dec 30, 2025