Science

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 […]

A journal retroactively retracted two 1940s Max Planck papers, not for fraud, but for duplicate publication German physicist Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, 1918 Nobel laureate and one of the most unimpeachable figures in the history of science, has joined an unusual list: Nobel Prize winners with retracted papers. The list is usually […]

Wild tomato genomes reveal how structural variants and retrotransposon explosions block crossbreeding Wild tomato species carry valuable genetic traits, drought tolerance, disease resistance, salt tolerance, that breeders would love to introduce into cultivated tomatoes. There is one persistent obstacle: when you cross a wild tomato with a domestic one, the chromosomes refuse to swap genetic […]

Iran conflict disrupts platinum supply, leaving Indian doctors rationing chemotherapy Hospitals across India face a critical shortage of cisplatin and carboplatin, two of the most widely used chemotherapy drugs in the country, forcing oncologists to ration treatment in ways that would have been unthinkable months ago. The Lancet, in a World Report published June 27, […]

Only HIIT preserved muscle while burning fat in older adults, 6-month study finds A six-month randomized trial from the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) and the University of Queensland has found that high-intensity interval training (HIIT) was the only exercise mode that helped older adults lose body fat while preserving lean muscle mass. Moderate-intensity […]

A study of 463,396 adolescents , the largest of its kind to examine the link between teenage cannabis use and clinically diagnosed mental illness , has found that any past-year cannabis use at ages 13 to 17 is associated with roughly double the risk of developing psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder by age 26. The […]