Science

For twenty years, computer scientists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: can a quantum computer verify solutions to problems that a classical computer cannot even describe? The answer, it turns out, is yes, and the proof is 96 pages long. A team of four researchers, John Bostanci (Simons Institute / Columbia), Jonas Haferkamp (Ruhr […]

Philosophy journals have no uniform conflict-of-interest policies. A researcher can publish a paper on AI ethics while serving as a paid consultant for an AI company, and readers, and editors, would have no structured way to know. A new open letter released July 1 by professors Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine) and Craig Callender (UC San […]

The booming market for online GLP-1 prescriptions is built on convenience: a few clicks, a brief questionnaire, and a month’s supply of a weight-loss drug arrives at your door. But a new secret shopper study published July 6 in JAMA reveals how little clinical oversight many of those prescriptions involve. Researchers at Yale University posed […]

Psoriasis affects more than 125 million people worldwide, and while biologic therapies that block the IL-17 pathway have transformed treatment, they remain expensive, require injection, and suppress the immune system systemically. A new study published in Nature Communications on July 6 opens the door to a different approach: topical creams that achieve the same effect […]

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), a condition in which the heart’s left ventricle cannot pump blood effectively, remains a major therapeutic challenge despite advances in drug therapy. Researchers at Harbin Medical University have identified a molecular mechanism that drives the pathological cardiac remodeling at the root of the disease: a splicing factor called […]

Modeling extreme weather events, the kind that cause the most damage, is computationally brutal. A 1-in-100-year heatwave requires at least 100 simulated years to generate even a single example by brute force. With high-resolution climate models, the computing time and energy cost associated with such a simulation would be measured in months or years, even […]

The first real-world field test of a geoengineering concept to slow Arctic sea ice loss has produced a clear result: pumping seawater onto the surface of sea ice can thicken it by up to 32 centimeters. The question is whether the approach can ever work at a meaningful scale. The experiment, conducted during the 2024-2025 […]

For more than a century, physics textbooks have taught that magnets come in two fundamental types. Ferromagnets, like the bar magnets on a refrigerator, have a strong net magnetization because all their atomic spins point in the same direction. Antiferromagnets have their spins arranged in alternating opposite directions, canceling out to produce zero net magnetization. […]

Modeling extreme weather events, the kind that cause the most damage, is computationally intensive. A 1-in-100-year heatwave requires at least 100 simulated years to generate even a single example by brute force. With high-resolution climate models, the computing time and energy cost associated with such a simulation would be measured in months or years, even […]

Speaking more than one language is associated with brains that appear biologically younger, by about six years for bilinguals, seven for trilinguals, and up to 13 for quadrilinguals, according to research presented in Barcelona at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2026. The findings, reported by The Guardian on July 6, add to […]