Science

In June 2026, Université Paris Cité revoked the doctorate of Étienne Klein, one of France’s most recognizable public intellectuals, a research director at the CEA (France’s atomic energy commission), a daily radio host on France Culture, the author of more than 30 books, and a former consultant on the design of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. […]

There is a quiet anxiety that has followed the rise of large language models from the beginning: what happens when they get good enough to game the system? Not through jailbreaking, the explicit trickery that gets patched in weekly updates, but through something subtler. What happens when they learn to follow the letter of the […]

On June 15, 2026, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a letter on X that he had sent to the editor-in-chief of Toxicology Reports, an Elsevier-published journal. The letter demands detailed explanations for the journal’s decision to remove a 2021 study linking childhood vaccination to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). […]

The most powerful cancer immunotherapies come with a cruel paradox. CAR-T cell therapies and bispecific antibodies can send advanced blood cancers into remission, but they trigger a systemic inflammatory storm in more than 70% of patients. Cytokine release syndrome, or CRS, can turn a lifesaving treatment into an ICU emergency: high fevers, crashing blood pressure, […]

On June 15, 2026, a team led by Ziyad Al-Aly at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and Washington University published a study in JAMA Internal Medicine that should, by any reasonable standard, settle a debate that has surrounded COVID-19 vaccination since its introduction. The study followed 1,039,659 US veterans, 349,085 who received the […]

In July 2023, a 45-year-old environmental activist named Casey Harrell underwent a five-hour surgery at UC Davis Health. Four microelectrode arrays, each carrying 64 channels, were implanted into the speech motor cortex of his left precentral gyrus. Two titanium pedestals were secured to his skull. A USB cable would connect them to a computer every […]

A new oral diabetes medication has delivered the strongest results ever seen from a GLP-1 pill in head-to-head clinical trials, outperforming the current standard of care and achieving weight loss comparable to injectable therapies — all without the requirement to take it on an empty stomach. The drug is orforglipron, sold under the brand name […]

Official flood maps in the United States cover only about one-third of river channels. For the remaining two-thirds — including many communities in flood-prone regions — there has been no systematic, publicly available assessment of flood risk. A team of researchers led by Abraham Noah Wu at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore […]

On June 15, QuEra Computing announced it will deliver Libra, its first fault-tolerant quantum computer, to the Amazon Braket cloud platform in 2028 — roughly two years from now. The company says Libra will be a “megaquop-class” system capable of approximately 1 million reliable logical quantum operations per second, powered by 256 error-corrected logical qubits […]

Supernova remnants — the expanding debris clouds left behind after a star explodes — are supposed to fade smoothly and quietly over centuries. But staring at the same remnants in the galaxy M83 for 14 years, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory found something unexpected: roughly half of them are flickering, flaring, and changing brightness in ways […]