Science

Galactic Archaeologists Win 2026 Kavli Prize for Reconstructing the Milky Way’s Violent Past Before the 1990s, the Milky Way was thought to have formed the way a chef builds a sauce, smooth, gradual, continuous. Gas drifted together, cooled, and condensed into stars over billions of years. The galaxy grew from within. The discovery that this […]

China Is Building the World’s Largest Nuclear Fleet — and Doing It Faster and Cheaper Than Anyone Else The United States has built two reactors in the past quarter-century. They took 15 years each and cost roughly $15 per watt of capacity. France connected its first new reactor in 20 years in December 2024. China, […]

The First Complex Cells Weren’t a Simple Union — They Were a Crowd The origin of complex cells — eukaryotes, the domain that includes every animal, plant, and fungus — has long been taught as a story of two: an archaeon swallowed a bacterium, and the bacterium became the mitochondrion. This binary partnership, formalized decades […]

CRISPR Is No Longer Just Scissors — The Future of Gene Editing Is a Toolbox In August 2024, a newborn at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disease — a genetic mutation that prevented their body from digesting protein. Babies with this condition typically suffer severe brain damage within months. […]

How a chemical ‘backdoor’ re-sensitizes drug-resistant ovarian cancer by pulling the plug on DNA repair One of the most frustrating patterns in oncology is the tumor that initially responds to a drug and then stops: the inevitable emergence of resistance. For PARP inhibitors — a class of drug that has transformed treatment of BRCA-mutant ovarian […]

Google DeepMind launches $10M initiative to study what happens when millions of AI agents interact For most of the history of AI safety research, the unit of analysis has been the single agent: Is this model truthful? Is it aligned with human values? Can it be jailbroken? But a growing number of researchers argue that […]

A new study published June 10 in Nature has found that lifestyle factors , sleep quality and physical activity , can suppress the cardiovascular risk associated with certain age-related DNA mutations, but not all of them. The finding provides the first mechanistic explanation for why some people with “bad” genetic signatures remain healthy, while also […]

In the southeastern Indian Ocean, along a chain of deep-sea fractures formed 50-60 million years ago as Australia and Antarctica separated, an extraordinary discovery has been made. Stretching across approximately 1,200 kilometers of seafloor at depths between 4,600 and 7,000 meters, researchers have found what they describe as a “deep-sea whale necropolis” , a continuous […]

When you fall asleep, the world does not go silent because your sensory organs stop working. Your ears still pick up sound, your skin still feels pressure, your eyes still register light. What changes is how your brain processes that information , and a new study published June 11 in Nature Communications reveals that the […]

For nearly two decades, the condensed matter physics community has searched for definitive experimental proof that a quantum spin liquid (QSL) can exist in a real material. A paper published June 10 in Nature Physics by an international team led by the University of Oxford, the University of Bristol, and University College Cork may have […]