Read More 2026-06-01 Programmable Living Plastics That Self-Destruct in Six Days Scientists embedded engineered Bacillus subtilis and two enzymes into polycaprolactone to create living plastics that, when activated, fully degrade within six days without producing microplastics.
Read More 2026-06-01 Stanford's New iISM Microscope Reveals Living Cells Stanford researchers combined interferometric scattering and image-scanning techniques to create iISM, a label-free microscope that images living cells at ~120 nm resolution with lower illumination, enabling longer, gentler live-cell observation.
Read More 2026-05-18 How Scientists Finally Cracked the Sun’s Heat Puzzle Scientists have directly detected twisting Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona, a major breakthrough that could explain why the outer solar atmosphere is far hotter than the Sun’s surface.
Read More 2026-05-13 AI Helps Scientists Build a 19 Amino Acid Life Form Scientists used AI to engineer the first known 19 amino acid organism, rewriting E. coli without isoleucine and opening new paths in synthetic biology, evolution research, and bioengineering.
Read More 2026-05-11 Why Your Weirdest Dreams Feel So Strangely Personal A new neuroscience study suggests dreams are not random at all. They are shaped by daily life, personality, stress, and even mind wandering, making your strangest dreams more personal than they seem.
Read More 2026-04-17 Scientists Trap Infrared Light in a 42-Nm Lattice Researchers in Poland trapped infrared light in a 42-nanometer MoSe2 lattice, a breakthrough that could advance photonics, ultracompact lasers, and optical computing.
Read More 2026-04-13 Scientists Find Liquids Can Snap Like Solids Scientists have discovered that simple liquids can fracture like solids under enough stress, revealing a surprising new behavior with implications for fluid mechanics and technologies such as 3D printing and soft robotics.
Read More 2026-04-13 Too Much Vitamin D Can Turn Risky, Scientists Warn Vitamin D is essential, but too much can cause hypercalcemia, kidney stones, and serious toxicity. Scientists urge careful dosing and medical guidance.
Read More 2026-04-13 Why Extreme Heat Is Becoming Deadlier Than Expected A new study suggests lethal heat arrives sooner than wet bulb temperature thresholds predicted, revealing how extreme heatwaves can overwhelm the human body.
Read More 2026-04-07 How Car Battery Acid Became a Clean Fuel Asset Researchers at Cambridge have found a way to use spent car battery acid to break down plastic waste and produce clean hydrogen fuel in a solar-powered reactor that ran for 264 hours.
Read More 2026-03-20 Why Aging Speeds Up Around 50, Scientists Find A major study reveals that human aging accelerates around age 50, driven by protein changes across organs, offering new insights into disease risk and future medical interventions.
Read More 2026-03-03 Superagers May Stay Sharp by Growing New Brain Cells A study of donated human brains suggests superagers have far more developing hippocampal neurons than typical older adults, while Alzheimer’s shows a drop—pointing to neurogenesis as a key marker of cognitive resilience.
Read More 2026-02-22 When Play Disappears: Why Adults Need Playfulness Now When adults hide playful behaviour it dwindles. Visible, accepted play boosts cognitive flexibility, social bonds, and mental health—vital from workplaces to long-duration space missions.
Read More 2026-02-21 US Breakthrough: Accelerators Cut Nuclear Waste Life Jefferson Lab and partners are advancing accelerator-driven systems (ADS) to transmute spent nuclear fuel, cutting hazardous lifetimes from ~100,000 to ~300 years while producing low-carbon heat for power generation.
Read More 2026-02-20 Lab-Grown Mini-Brains Learned to Balance a Pole in Dish Researchers trained mouse-derived cortical organoids in a closed-loop system so their electrical responses improved control of a virtual cartpole. The work shows short-term plasticity and points to tools for studying neurological disease.
Read More 2026-02-15 Brain Stimulation Makes People Share More — a Study University of Zurich scientists used noninvasive electrical brain stimulation to bias decisions toward generosity. Gamma-frequency stimulation of prefrontal and parietal networks increased sharing in a controlled economic game.
Read More 2026-02-13 Ancient Lungfish Rewrite the Story of Life on Land CT scans of Devonian lungfish fossils from Australia and China reveal unexpected cranial anatomy, reshaping our understanding of lungfish diversity and the evolutionary path that led vertebrates onto land.
Read More 2026-02-10 Why Some Children Struggle with Math Mistakes, Not Numbers Stanford researchers find that some children’s math difficulties stem from trouble updating strategies after mistakes rather than from poor number sense, pointing to new directions for intervention.
Read More 2026-02-06 Largest Object Seen as a Quantum Wave Shatters Records A University of Vienna and Duisburg-Essen experiment revealed interference from 8 nm sodium clusters weighing over 170,000 amu, showing quantum superposition applies to surprisingly large objects and challenging where decoherence sets in.
Read More 2026-02-01 When AI Outsmarts Average Minds: A Creativity Threshold A large-scale study finds some language models now outperform the average human on creativity tests, while top human creators still lead. Discover methods, implications, and how AI reshapes creative work.
