Air pollution kills slowly, through lung disease and heart attacks. But new research shows it can also kill quickly, by making workplace accidents both more frequent and more deadly.
Oct 27, 2025
The gym is full of people doing squats wrong. Knees caving in, backs rounding, hips drifting off-center.
Oct 27, 2025
Doctors and nurses who battled COVID patients now have something surprising to help them fight their own demons: a combination of psilocybin therapy and mindfulness training that nearly doubled the relief they got from meditation alone.
Oct 24, 2025
In a moment when diversity programs face intense political scrutiny, three biomedical scientists have published a data-driven argument that might surprise…
Oct 24, 2025
Most materials throw in the towel when temperatures plunge toward absolute zero.
Oct 24, 2025
Physicists have turned a radioactive molecule into a miniature particle collider, no bigger than a tabletop.
Oct 24, 2025
Imagine trying to recreate the Pacific Ocean on something smaller than a grain of rice.
Oct 24, 2025
A two-month drought in a Minnesota bog has revealed an unsettling vulnerability in one of Earth's most important carbon vaults.
Oct 24, 2025
That handful of chips or stack of cookies you're reaching for on a cold winter evening could be sending your body a confusing message: it's time to bulk up for the lean months ahead.
Oct 24, 2025
If you stumbled across the Wyoming badlands 66 million years ago, you might have spotted something peculiar: the sun-dried carcass of a duck-billed dinosaur, its scales glinting in the late afternoon light, soon to be buried by rushing floodwaters.
Oct 24, 2025
Picture an elephant in Ice Age France. Now picture a Neanderthal taking it down with fire and spears.
Oct 24, 2025
What if you could teach a team of AI programs to behave like graduate students, puzzling through complex design problems and checking each other's work?
Oct 24, 2025
For 83 years, solar physicists have been hunting ghosts. They knew torsional Alfven waves had to exist somewhere in the Sun's blazing atmosphere, twisting through magnetic field lines like invisible corkscrews.
Oct 24, 2025
Scientists have turned a fungus into a botanical con artist. The engineered microbe smells like a flower, lures mosquitoes looking for nectar, and kills them within days.
Oct 24, 2025
