Bones don't just grow longer. They build their own plumbing as they go. A new study out of China has tracked down the specific cells responsible for this hidden coordination act, and the answer involves cartilage doing a lot more than anyone suspected.
Dec 12, 2025
On paper, American cities look dense, dynamic, and interconnected. But where people actually go each day tells a more fractured story.
Dec 12, 2025
For most polar bears, the future looks grim. More than two-thirds face extinction by 2050 as sea ice vanishes beneath their paws.
Dec 12, 2025
A single dark tooth, nearly as long as your thumb, sat in a brown mudstone bed in North Dakota for 66 million years.
Dec 12, 2025
Microdosing psychedelics delivers a measurable lift in mood and focus, but only on the day you take it.
Dec 12, 2025
Gonorrhoea is no longer a simple problem. It infects more than 82 million people globally each year, and the bacteria that cause the infection have been rapidly developing resistance to our existing drugs.
Dec 11, 2025
Imagine a computer so powerful its essential control components take up an entire warehouse.
Dec 11, 2025
We tend to imagine election interference as a high-tech operation run by shadow agencies in bunkers.
Dec 11, 2025
You remember those summer afternoons. The car windows were down. The radio was humming a perfect, catchy tune.
Dec 11, 2025
In planetary science, a fundamental rule dictates that time and proximity are killers.
Dec 11, 2025
The modern information landscape is a jungle of facts and lies. Every day, our feeds push claims about the world's biggest mysteries.
Dec 11, 2025
The trillion-dollar world of socially responsible investing (SRI) is built on a high ideal: use capital to drive positive change.
Dec 11, 2025
For a decade, the promise of probabilistic computing has been overshadowed by a single, physical bottleneck: the need for bulky, power-draining analog control circuits.
Dec 11, 2025
As we get older, our digestive systems lose their resilience. A meal we once enjoyed might become a source of discomfort.
Dec 11, 2025
