Science

On Feb. 2, 2026, Nature Medicine published a paper that seemed to offer one of the simplest and cheapest ways to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients: just treat them before 3:00 PM. The study, LungTIME-C01, reported that patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who received immunochemotherapy in the morning or early afternoon had […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has appointed eight new members to its Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC), the panel that advises the agency on which bulk drug substances compounding pharmacies are allowed to use. A review by STAT News, CNN, and the Associated Press has found that the vast majority of the new appointees […]

Neurotransmitter release is the fastest information-processing event in the nervous system. Within a few hundred microseconds of an action potential arriving at the synapse, synaptic vesicles fuse with the presynaptic membrane and dump their contents into the synaptic cleft. This speed is achieved by calcium sensors, proteins that detect the influx of calcium ions and […]

For more than a century, biologists knew that cells could sense and follow electric fields. The phenomenon was called galvanotaxis, named after Luigi Galvani, the 18th-century physicist who discovered bioelectricity. But the question of how cells actually detect these fields remained one of the most stubborn mysteries in cell biology. Now, a team led by […]

Your brain does not process the world in a steady, continuous stream. Every time your heart contracts, roughly once per second, it sends a wave of afferent signals up through the vagus nerve and brainstem to the cortex, competing for the same limited neural resources that process what you see, hear, and feel. A new […]

Breast compression is the most dreaded part of a mammogram. The breast is flattened between two rigid plates, sometimes with enough force to cause significant pain. Nearly one-third of women miss their initial mammogram appointment, and multiple studies have identified compression-related discomfort as a primary reason. For a screening test that reduces breast cancer mortality […]

The world’s fastest supercomputer is now Chinese, and it contains not a single US-made chip. LineShine, installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, reached number one on the June 2026 TOP500 list with a sustained performance of 2.198 exaflops (double-precision) on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark. That is roughly 22% faster than El […]

Brain metastases are among the most devastating complications in oncology. When cancer spreads to the brain, the prognosis is grim: roughly 90% of patients die within 12 months. Current treatments, surgery, radiation, and stereotactic radiosurgery, are palliative, not curative. No drug is approved to prevent brain metastases from forming in the first place. A new […]

New solid-state material converts blue sunlight into UV at record efficiency, enabling solar-driven chemistry Sunlight is abundant, but most of its energy arrives as visible and infrared photons, not the high-energy ultraviolet light needed to drive many chemical reactions, cure resins, or purify water. A team at Kyushu University has developed an organic solid-state material […]

Common pesticide chlorpyrifos linked to more than double the risk of Parkinson’s disease, UCLA study finds A study published in Molecular Neurodegeneration has found that exposure to the common agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos is associated with a significantly elevated risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, with the strongest effects seen in people who worked directly with the […]