Health
Three Common Sleep Habits Linked to Signs of Brain Aging
A daytime nap feels like a small mercy. Twenty minutes on the sofa, a quick reset, and you wake sharper than before.
Jun 6, 2026
Health
Creatine Strengthened Antitumour Immune Responses in Mice and Human Cells
Creatine improved dendritic-cell activity in mouse tumour models and laboratory-grown human cells. The study does not show that creatine treats cancer in patients.
Jun 6, 2026
Life
Scientists Have Written the Rules for First Contact, and Step One Is Don't Panic
A strange blip arrives on a radio telescope feed at three in the morning, narrow in frequency, drifting in the way you would expect of something far away and not of this Earth.
Jun 6, 2026
Technology
A Simple Recipe of Lasers and Mirrors Builds Quantum States No One Had Imagined
Trap a few thousand atoms between two mirrors, bathe them in laser light, and something frustrating happens.
Jun 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Red States and Blue States Are Becoming the Same Unhappy Country
Pull up the most recent data on how Americans rate their own lives, and a strange thing happens to the political map.
Jun 6, 2026
Life
Hawaiʻi’s Last False Killer Whales Are Starving in a Warming Sea
From a few hundred feet up, a drone can read a whale’s body the way a doctor reads a chart.
Jun 6, 2026
Health
Why the First Year of a Child's Diet May Echo in the Teenage Brain
Iron, iodine, the fatty acids in oily fish: feed them to a deficient teenager and, sometimes, their scores on a memory test or a nonverbal reasoning task tick upward.
Jun 5, 2026
Health
Strangers Add Years to Young Faces and Subtract Them from Old Ones
Show a stranger a photograph of a teenager and ask how old she is, and the odds are good they will guess too high.
Jun 5, 2026
Health
Phase 3 Trial Finds Finerenone Slowed Kidney Decline in Adults Without Diabetes
In a Phase 3 trial of adults with non-diabetic chronic kidney disease, finerenone modestly slowed the decline in kidney filtration compared with placebo. Broader regulatory approval is still pending.
Jun 5, 2026
Earth & Environment
New Equation Could Turn Crooked, Forked Logs Into Building Columns
At a Finnish sawmill, a felled tree gets sorted in seconds. The straight, fat trunk becomes saw logs, the good stuff, the boards and beams that hold up our buildings.
Jun 5, 2026
Social Sciences
Florida 'Anti-Woke' Campaign Turned Responsible Investing Into a Political Enemy
Florida is where woke goes to die. Governor Ron DeSantis said it more than once, and he said it with relish, borrowing the cadence of Winston Churchill's…
Jun 5, 2026
Health
What Blocks Terahertz Scanners Might Also Make Them Useful Doctors
Water is the enemy. In the terahertz band, that slice of the spectrum wedged between microwaves and infrared light, water swallows the radiation more than a million times more greedily than it swallows visible light.
Jun 5, 2026
Health
Fatherhood Was Associated With Lower Midlife Mortality Among Black Men in a Long US Cohort
In an observational cohort, Black fathers had lower midlife mortality than Black men without children. The study cannot show that fatherhood caused the difference.
Jun 4, 2026
Technology
The Neural Network That Was Taught Physics Before It Saw Any Data
A month. That is roughly how long Viktor Lilja used to wait just to teach a computer enough about light to be useful.
Jun 4, 2026