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A Hidden Enzyme in the Alzheimer’s Cascade: Vanderbilt Chemists Build the First Tools to Control TAOK1 The search for Alzheimer’s therapies has long focused on two main characters: amyloid-beta, which forms the plaques that litter the brains of patients, and tau, which forms the neurofibrillary tangles that correlate more […]

A Year of Treatment, Years of Protection: Abatacept Delayed Rheumatoid Arthritis Onset for Up to Four Years In medicine, the difference between treating a disease and preventing it is measured in years. For rheumatoid arthritis — a chronic autoimmune condition that affects roughly 1% of the global population — […]

Webb Telescope Sniffs Methane from Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS — A Chemical First for a Visitor from Beyond the Solar System Date: 2026-06-02 Featured image: Artist’s impression of Comet 3I/ATLAS as it streaks through the inner Solar System, with the Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI instrument analyzing its chemical composition. Credit: […]

Astronomers Discover Planetary ‘Fingerprints’ in Rings Around Stars — A New Way to Weigh Invisible Exoplanets Date: 2026-06-02 Featured image: An artist’s illustration of a young planet carving lanes through a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around its host star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A team of astrophysicists at […]

The current outbreak of Bundibugyo ebolavirus — a rare and severe strain of Ebola for which no licensed vaccine or treatment exists — has now surpassed 290 confirmed cases across two countries. The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on May 17. On […]

The most beautiful images in astronomy are often the most deceptive. When the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captures a protoplanetary disk — the swirling nursery of gas and dust around a young star — it reveals intricate patterns of concentric rings and gaps. For years, astronomers suspected these […]

WindBorne Systems released the sixth version of its WeatherMesh AI model on June 1, claiming it now outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) — the gold standard of global weather prediction — on key accuracy metrics. The model updates its forecast every hour at a resolution […]

CHICAGO — When a newspaper headline says a drug “strips cancer cells of their invisibility cloak,” the metaphor carries more scientific truth than most readers realize. But the actual mechanism is both subtler and more elegant than cloaks. The data presented June 1 at the American Society of Clinical […]

Older mice that received their own preserved youthful gut bacteria showed reduced inflammation, DNA damage, and fibrosis — and none developed liver cancer, according to findings presented at Digestive Disease Week 2026.

In 1946, Paul Erdős — the most prolific mathematician in history, with over 1,500 papers to his name — posed a simple question about geometry. Given n points on a flat plane, what is the maximum number of pairs that can be exactly one unit apart? The problem looks […]