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Half of Amazon Insects Could Face Dangerous Heat Stress

Mar. 5, 2026 A sweeping new study of more than 2,000 insect species reveals a troubling reality: many insects may be far less capable of coping with rising temperatures than scientists once hoped. Researchers found that while some species living at higher ...

Scientists Discover the Protein That Malaria Parasites Can’t Live Without

Mar. 5, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a crucial weakness in the malaria parasite that could open the door to new treatments. Researchers identified a protein called Aurora-related kinase 1 (ARK1) that acts like a traffic controller during the parasite’s ...

New Drug Cuts Seizures by Up to 91% in Children with Rare Epilepsy

Mar. 4, 2026 A new experimental drug is showing remarkable promise for children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy. In clinical trials, the treatment zorevunersen cut seizures by as much as 91% while also improving quality of life for many ...

Ozempic-like Weight Loss Drugs May Help the Heart Recover After a Heart Attack

Mar. 4, 2026 Popular weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro may do more than help people shed pounds. New research suggests these GLP-1 medications could also help protect the heart after a heart ...

Millions Take Aspirin to Prevent Colon Cancer. a Major Review Says Don’t Count on It

Mar. 4, 2026 Daily aspirin does not reliably prevent bowel cancer in people at average risk, according to a major new review. Any potential protective effect may take more than a decade to appear — if it ...

Millions with Joint Pain and Osteoarthritis Are Missing the Most Powerful Treatment

Mar. 4, 2026 Stiff knees and aching hips may seem like an inevitable part of aging, but experts say we’re getting osteoarthritis all wrong. Despite affecting nearly 600 million people worldwide — and ...

Scientists Capture a Magnetic Flip in 140 Trillionths of a Second

Mar. 4, 2026 Scientists at the University of Tokyo have captured something never seen before: a frame-by-frame view of how electron spins flip inside an antiferromagnet, a material once thought to be magnetically “invisible.” By firing ultrafast electrical ...

Mar. 4, 2026 A sweeping new study reveals that what’s on your plate may directly shape the pesticides circulating in your body. Researchers found that people who eat more fruits and vegetables known to carry higher pesticide residues—such as strawberries, ...

Study Finds Wild Release Can Be Deadly for Rescued Slow Lorises

Mar. 3, 2026 Returning rescued slow lorises to the wild may sound like a conservation success, but a new study shows it can turn deadly. Researchers tracked nine released animals and found that only two survived, with most killed in territorial attacks by other ...

Wolves Are Stealing Cougar Kills in Yellowstone, Study Finds

Mar. 3, 2026 In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that wolves often muscle in on cougar ...

Laser Printed Hydrogel Implant Could Transform Bone Repair

Mar. 3, 2026 When a bone break is too severe to heal on its own, surgeons often rely on grafts or rigid metal implants — but both come with serious drawbacks. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have created a jelly-like hydrogel that mimics the body’s natural ...

A Flash of Laser Light Flips a Magnet in Major Light-control Breakthrough

Mar. 3, 2026 Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet using a laser beam. In the future, this method could be used to create adaptable electronic circuits with ...

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Scientists Just Looked Inside Darwin’s 200-Year-Old Specimen Jars Without Opening Them

Mar. 5, 2026 Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly 200-year-old jars. By ...

Record-Breaking Photodetector Captures Light in Just 125 Picoseconds

Mar. 4, 2026 A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a signal in just 125 picoseconds, making it the fastest pyroelectric ...

2700-Year-Old Teeth Reveal the Hidden Lives of Iron Age Italians

Mar. 4, 2026 Iron Age teeth from southern Italy have become time capsules, preserving intimate details of childhood and diet. Growth lines in the enamel reveal moments of early-life stress, while hardened plaque ...

Scientists Build a “periodic Table” for AI

Mar. 4, 2026 Choosing the right method for multimodal AI—systems that combine text, images, and more—has long been trial and error. Emory physicists created a unifying mathematical framework that shows many ...

Climate Models May Be Missing Massive Carbon Emissions from Boreal Wildfires

Mar. 4, 2026 Northern wildfires may be more dangerous for the climate than they appear. Researchers found that fires in boreal forests can burn deep into peat ...

World’s Smallest OLED Pixel Could Transform Smart Glasses

Mar. 4, 2026 Researchers have built the smallest OLED pixel ever made—just 300 nanometers across—without sacrificing brightness. By redesigning the pixel with a nano-sized optical antenna and a protective ...

A Simple Hand Photo May Be the Key to Detecting a Serious Disease

Mar. 4, 2026 Researchers at Kobe University have developed an AI system that can detect acromegaly, a rare hormone disorder, by analyzing photos of the back of the hand and a clenched fist. The disease often ...

Scientists Just Found the Brain’s Hidden Defense Against Alzheimer’s

Mar. 3, 2026 A new study has uncovered why some brain cells are more resistant to Alzheimer’s damage than others. Researchers found a natural cleanup system that helps remove toxic tau protein before it can ...

Neutrinos Could Explain Why Matter Survived the Big Bang

Mar. 3, 2026 An international team combining two major neutrino experiments has uncovered stronger evidence that neutrinos and antimatter don’t behave as perfect mirror images. That subtle difference may hold ...

What Snow Monkeys’ Steamy Baths Are Really Doing to Their Bodies

Mar. 3, 2026 Japanese snow monkeys don’t just soak in hot springs to escape the winter chill — their steamy spa sessions may also be reshaping their invisible world. Researchers in Japan found that macaques ...

Blasted Off Mars and Still Alive

Mar. 3, 2026 A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In laboratory experiments designed to mimic the crushing shock of a massive asteroid ...

Teeth Smaller Than a Fingertip Reveal the First Primate Ancestor

Mar. 3, 2026 Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Scientists Find the Genetic Switch That Makes Pancreatic Cancer Resist Chemotherapy

Mar. 3, 2026 Scientists have identified a crucial molecular switch that decides whether pancreatic cancer cells resist chemotherapy or respond to it. The key player, a gene called GATA6, keeps tumours in a more ...

The Hidden Technology That Could Unlock Commercial Fusion Power

Mar. 3, 2026 Fusion energy may be one of the most promising clean power sources of the future—but only if scientists can precisely measure the extreme, fast-moving plasmas that make it possible. A new U.S. ...

For Every Known Vertebrate Species, Two More May Be Hiding in Plain Sight

Mar. 3, 2026 Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, ...

New Crystal Seeding Method Boosts Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency to 23%

Mar. 1, 2026 Inverted perovskite solar cells offer strong potential for scalable, low-cost solar power, but a hidden interface inside the device has limited their performance and durability. Researchers have now ...

Scientists Discover the Genetic Switch That Keeps Your Organs Healthy

Mar. 1, 2026 Scientists have uncovered a powerful genetic switch that helps some of the body’s most important immune cells grow up properly and keep our organs healthy. The switch, called MafB, guides immature ...

How the Body Really Ages: 7 Million Cells Mapped Across 21 Organs

Feb. 28, 2026 Scientists have built a massive cellular atlas showing how aging reshapes the body across 21 organs. Studying nearly 7 million cells, they found that aging starts earlier than expected and unfolds in ...

A Major Climate Hope in Antarctica Just Melted Away

Feb. 28, 2026 A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica ...

Green Hydrogen Has a Hidden Problem and Scientists May Have Fixed It

Feb. 26, 2026 Green hydrogen could be a game-changer for the clean energy transition—but right now, it’s too expensive and still relies on harmful “forever chemicals.” A new EU-backed project called ...

Ireland’s Old Irish Goat Has Survived 3,000 Years

Feb. 26, 2026 The Old Irish Goat isn’t just part of folklore — it’s genetically linked to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient remains and discovered that today’s rare ...

PFAS Found in Most Americans Linked to Rapid Biological Aging

Feb. 26, 2026 “Forever chemicals” known as PFAS have quietly infiltrated everything from nonstick pans to food packaging—and now new research suggests some of them may be speeding up the aging process ...

Scientists Discover a Bacterial Kill Switch and It Could Change the Fight Against Superbugs

Feb. 28, 2026 Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...

Iron Outperforms Rare Metals in Stunning Chemistry Advance

Feb. 27, 2026 Researchers at Nagoya University have created a more efficient iron-based photocatalyst that could reduce the need for rare and expensive metals in advanced chemistry. Unlike earlier designs, the new ...

American Heart Association Warns 60% of US Women Will Have Cardiovascular Disease by 2050

Feb. 27, 2026 Heart disease is on track to tighten its grip on American women. New projections from the American Heart Association warn that over the next 25 years, cardiovascular disease will rise sharply, driven ...

Hidden Architecture Inside Cellular Droplets Opens New Targets for Cancer and ALS

Feb. 26, 2026 Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...

Apollo Rocks Reveal the Moon Had Brief Bursts of Super-Strong Magnetism

Feb. 26, 2026 Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, ...

Scientists Just Turned Light Into a Remote Control for Crystals

Mar. 2, 2026 NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively turning illumination into a tool for shaping matter. By adding light-sensitive ...

A Faint Cosmic Hum Could Solve the Universe’s Expansion Mystery

Mar. 1, 2026 Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly ...

Stunning 3D Maps Reveal DNA Is Structured Before Life “switches On”

Feb. 27, 2026 For decades, scientists believed a fertilized egg’s DNA began as a shapeless mass, only organizing itself once the embryo switched on its genes. But new research reveals that the genome is already ...