Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-06-012Programmable Living Plastics That Self-Destruct in Six DaysScientists 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 MoreOliver Hayes2026-05-182How Scientists Finally Cracked the Sun’s Heat PuzzleScientists 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-05-132AI Helps Scientists Build a 19 Amino Acid Life FormScientists 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 MoreOliver Hayes2026-05-112Why Your Weirdest Dreams Feel So Strangely PersonalA 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-172Scientists Trap Infrared Light in a 42-Nm LatticeResearchers in Poland trapped infrared light in a 42-nanometer MoSe2 lattice, a breakthrough that could advance photonics, ultracompact lasers, and optical computing.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-133Scientists Find Liquids Can Snap Like SolidsScientists 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-133Too Much Vitamin D Can Turn Risky, Scientists WarnVitamin D is essential, but too much can cause hypercalcemia, kidney stones, and serious toxicity. Scientists urge careful dosing and medical guidance.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-04-132Why Extreme Heat Is Becoming Deadlier Than ExpectedA new study suggests lethal heat arrives sooner than wet bulb temperature thresholds predicted, revealing how extreme heatwaves can overwhelm the human body.
Read MoreEmma Collins2026-04-072How Car Battery Acid Became a Clean Fuel AssetResearchers 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-03-203Why Aging Speeds Up Around 50, Scientists FindA 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-03-033Superagers May Stay Sharp by Growing New Brain CellsA 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 MoreOliver Hayes2026-02-22When Play Disappears: Why Adults Need Playfulness NowWhen 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 MoreOliver Hayes2026-02-212US Breakthrough: Accelerators Cut Nuclear Waste LifeJefferson 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-02-203Lab-Grown Mini-Brains Learned to Balance a Pole in DishResearchers 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-02-152Brain Stimulation Makes People Share More — a StudyUniversity 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-02-132Ancient Lungfish Rewrite the Story of Life on LandCT 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-02-102Why Some Children Struggle with Math Mistakes, Not NumbersStanford 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 MoreOliver Hayes2026-02-062Largest Object Seen as a Quantum Wave Shatters RecordsA 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 MoreNora Schmidt2026-02-013When AI Outsmarts Average Minds: A Creativity ThresholdA 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.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-01-302Donut Light Switches Could Toughen Wireless Links NowA nonlinear metasurface converts shaped femtosecond pulses into switchable toroidal terahertz skyrmions, offering a new, topology-based approach to robust wireless communication and terahertz signal processing.
