Health
AI Coaches Athletes Through Perfect Form to Dodge Injuries
The gym is full of people doing squats wrong. Knees caving in, backs rounding, hips drifting off-center.
Oct 27, 2025
Health
Magic Mushrooms and Meditation Tag-Team Depression
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
Social Sciences
Scientists Warn: Cutting DEI Programs Could Stall Innovation
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
Physics
The Humble Crystal That Thrives in the Deep Freeze
Most materials throw in the towel when temperatures plunge toward absolute zero.
Oct 24, 2025
Physics
How One Molecule Became a Window Into the Atomic Nucleus
Physicists have turned a radioactive molecule into a miniature particle collider, no bigger than a tabletop.
Oct 24, 2025
Technology
Physicists Shrink an Ocean to the Width of a Hair
Imagine trying to recreate the Pacific Ocean on something smaller than a grain of rice.
Oct 24, 2025
Earth & Environment
Extreme Droughts Could Wipe Out Centuries of Carbon Storage in Peatlands
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
Health
Winter Snacks May Trick Your Body Into Summer Mode
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
Life
Clay Mask Reveals What Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Really Looked Like
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
Life
Ancient Hunters Torched Europe's Forests Millennia Before Farms
Picture an elephant in Ice Age France. Now picture a Neanderthal taking it down with fire and spears.
Oct 24, 2025
Technology
AI Bots Team Up to Solve Physics Problems Like Scientists
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
Physics
Scientists Catch the Sun's Hidden Twist
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
Life
Sweet Smell of Death for Mosquitos
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
Brain & Behavior
Your Brain Pulls Off a Balancing Act While You Sleep
Scientists at Mass General Brigham have mapped what happens inside the brain during the precise moments we drift off to sleep, and the findings reveal an unexpectedly choreographed dance of activity.
Oct 24, 2025