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In June 2026, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced what may be the most ambitious single bet in the history of neuroscience. Its Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., is committing approximately $1 billion over the next decade to a single, unified goal: build the first mechanistic account of how a vertebrate brain generates behavior. […]

Every year, roughly 12 million people worldwide survive a stroke. Of those, only about 35% make a full recovery or live with only minor impairments, according to a 2020 review in Medicina. Nearly 100 million people globally live with the aftermath of a stroke, deficits in motor function, speech, cognition, or sensation that can persist […]

The accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles is one of the defining pathologies of Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies such as progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration. For decades, drug developers have tried, and largely failed, to clear tau from the brain. Antibodies, small molecules, antisense oligonucleotides: the approaches have been many, the […]

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 […]