Editorial Team
There is a familiar version of happiness advice that says we should get outside, move around, see people, and break up the routine.
Jul 12, 2026
The water did not look like a message from deep time. It came from cracks in rock nearly three kilometres below the surface of a Canadian mine, in a place built for extracting ore rather than imagining the early Earth.
Jul 12, 2026
Diet and exercise get most of the public attention when people talk about a long life.
Jul 12, 2026
The human gut lining rebuilds itself every four to five days, driven by Lgr5-positive stem cells at the base of intestinal crypts that divide roughly once a day. It is one of the fastest-renewing tissues in the body — and one of the most vulnerable.
Jul 12, 2026
Voyager 1 is still doing science in interstellar space, but the mission has entered a stage where every watt has become a decision.
Jul 12, 2026
The brain is often described as if it sits protected and still inside the skull.
Jul 12, 2026
The gut does not just digest food, house microbes and keep unwanted material out of the bloodstream.
Jul 12, 2026
Social behaviour can feel immediate. Another person turns toward you, a conversation opens, or a group begins to move, and you respond as if the choice appeared at the same moment as the action.
Jul 12, 2026
The old textbook picture is simple enough to draw: the brain decides, the spinal cord or nerve cord relays, and the body carries out the instruction.
Jul 12, 2026
The usual picture of primate origins is warm, leafy and tropical: small tree-dwelling mammals evolving in forests where fruit, flowers and insects were available year-round.
Jul 12, 2026
The fossil is easy to oversell, because the real version is already strange enough.
Jul 12, 2026
Euclid was built mainly to map the large-scale universe. Barely into its survey, it has already changed the census of some of the earliest known quasars.
Jul 11, 2026
A tropical butterfly genus best known for bright wing patterns and mimicry has now become interesting for a quieter reason: some of its members live much…
Jul 11, 2026
NASA's Curiosity rover has found a wider chemical inventory in an ancient Martian rock than earlier rover experiments had shown.
Jul 11, 2026
