The method, the findings, the stakes.
A team led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward has catalogued more than a thousand preserved brains recovered from archaeological and forensic contexts, and found that soft-tissue decay alone cannot explain which skulls keep their grey matter.
A new theoretical paper argues that the second law of thermodynamics can coexist with the rise of cosmic complexity, by treating entropy as geometry…
A team at the Berlin Institute of Health reports a fluorescence-based method that measures protein folding inside membraneless organelles of living…
A PNAS paper dissects why academic pay gaps survive every reform effort, while a separate study traces how honeybee colonies assign labour without a…
A multi-year citizen-science effort along the Oregon coast is turning ordinary beach webcams and a student-built sensor grid into one of the most…
A single rare meteorite may have ended the dinosaurs. A new map of how influenza hijacks human cells could change the next pandemic response. And a…
In the same 24 hours, researchers described a magnetotactic bacterium powered by two other species, and a sweeping review warned that oxygen is…
A long-running study of roughly 1,700 adults links frequent television viewing in midlife to measurable brain-volume loss decades later, sharpening a…
A peer-reviewed review in the International Journal of Business and Systems Research suggests distinctiveness, not sentiment, is doing the heavy…
A photo-redox method reported this week pushes single-electron reactions past their usual voltage ceiling, letting chemists stitch together strained…
Researchers report that classical hardware can now solve a problem once written off as the exclusive preserve of large quantum machines, sharpening a…
Sediment cores from K’gari’s deepest lakes show they drained during a wet stretch 7,500 years ago. The likely culprit sits in the wind, not the rain.
Four unpremaxilla bones pulled from Hokkaido's Cretaceous deposits suggest a previously unrecognised mosasaur species roamed the margins of the…
A new wave of research argues that traditional and Indigenous knowledge systems are not folklore but operational infrastructure for climate-resilient…
Three years into the investing-podcast boom, listeners say they feel smarter about the market. Peer-reviewed evidence suggests the lift is smaller,…
A postdoctoral fellow at MIT is teaching drones and satellites to read bacterial colonies the way astronomers read stars, betting that the next…
The University of Illinois is planting plots meant to outlast their funders. What 150 years of crop data could settle, and what it cannot.
Built on GPlates, a free portal lets anyone reconstruct a fossil's drift across hundreds of millions of years in seconds, a job that used to take…
Researchers in France report that aligning graphite flakes lets a diamagnetic sample float stably above permanent magnets, reviving a 19th-century…
UK scientists report the first CRISPR edit in Culicoides biting midges, a small but economically devastating vector, opening a route to studying how…
From Helicobacter hidden in pygmy sperm whales to a new way of forecasting solar storms, this week's science desk spans virology, oncology, deep-time…
A City St George's study finds that early-career funding boosts women's scientific influence and citation rates more than men's, sharpening the case…
A ten-year body of California research has begun reshaping how schools decide when English learners are ready for mainstream coursework, with new…
A new study finds that chimpanzees and bonobos console one another with embraces and hand-holding almost identical to our own, suggesting the…
New analysis led by the University of Southampton finds that the early-2020s slowdown in Arctic winter sea ice decline has ended, with record lows in…
