Science

In the space of two weeks in June 2026, two separate groups published results that, taken together, hint at a broader transformation in how scientists visualize the smallest structures of matter. One paper came from the MIT laboratory of Edward Boyden, a pioneer of expansion microscopy. The other came from Fudan University in Shanghai, where […]

A refrigerator-sized physics facility aboard the International Space Station has quietly been producing some of the coldest matter in the universe for over five years. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, operated remotely from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, uses lasers and magnetic fields to cool clouds of rubidium and potassium atoms to within a few […]

The humans hired to train the world’s most advanced AI models are increasingly outsourcing their work to other AI chatbots, according to an investigation by New Scientist’s Matthew Sparkes based on interviews with three anonymous whistleblowers who worked on the platform Outlier, owned by Scale AI. The practice threatens the integrity of the Reinforcement Learning […]

A Phase I/II trial of high-dose niacin (vitamin B3) combined with standard chemoradiation in newly diagnosed glioblastoma has produced an early signal that exceeds historical benchmarks by a substantial margin. Of the first 24 evaluable patients, 82.3 percent showed no disease progression at six months, compared with 53.9 percent in the historical Stupp regimen control, […]

For the first time, quantum teleportation has outperformed the best possible direct transmission of photons through an identical lossy channel. The experiment, led by Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu at the University of Science and Technology of China, achieves what the researchers call an “unconditional advantage” for teleportation over direct state transfer. The finding, published […]

A collapsed cave near Waitomo on New Zealand’s North Island has yielded the first large terrestrial vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Early Pleistocene in the country’s history, and it tells a surprising story: between one-third and one-half of the bird species found in the deposit went extinct in the million years before humans ever reached […]

Researchers at the University of Oxford have identified a previously unrecognized driver of inflammatory bowel disease: autoantibodies that neutralize interleukin-10, the immune system’s primary anti-inflammatory signaling molecule. The finding, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, applies to approximately one in 30 IBD patients and represents the strongest known genetic association for any autoimmune […]

The most precise manufacturing device ever built by humans costs $400 million, weighs more than 150 tons, and fills the volume of a double-decker bus. Only one company in the world makes it. And the global semiconductor industry, from Intel to TSMC to Samsung, is betting its future on it. ASML’s high-NA EUV (high numerical […]

Researchers in Russia have reported that a chemical gel applied to the severed ends of a completely transected spinal cord can restore walking in pigs within two months. The approach, which the team calls “fusogenic neurosurgery,” uses polyethylene glycol and chitosan to physically fuse severed axonal membranes rather than waiting for slow natural regeneration. The […]

This article is based on a single case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Case reports cannot establish causality, and the findings should not be generalized to the broader Alzheimer’s population. See caveats below. An octogenarian woman with a 10-year history of advanced Alzheimer’s disease became conversational for several hours after consuming five grams of […]