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El Niño May Turn the Monsoon Season Strange This Year
A strong El Niño is building in the Pacific, and the monsoon season could turn strange this year — less rain in some places, dangerous floods in others.
May 23The Trait That Let Ancient Mesoamerican Cities Survive
One ancient city lasted 1,300 years. A near-identical neighbour died in 200. New research finds the difference was not luck, but how power was shared.
May 22 BiologyWhy Human vs Artificial Intelligence Is a False Race
A submarine does not swim, yet it crosses oceans. The human vs artificial intelligence gap works the same way, and that changes everything.
May 22 MedicineImmune Checkpoint Inhibitor Joint Pain Hides Real Damage
A whole-body MRI study shows immune checkpoint inhibitor joint pain often hides real, scan-visible inflammation that doctors are missing.
May 21 MedicineA Neck Injection Is Showing Real Promise for People With PTSD
A nerve-blocking injection in the neck is calming the body's stuck trauma alarm — and now a new review of clinical trials confirms it works.
May 20Bacterial Cellulose: Spun Into a Material Tougher Than Steel
Scientists grew bacterial cellulose in a spinning tube and made a thin sheet so strong it beats many metals, glass, and plastic. Here is how.
May 20 HEALTHPeppermint Oil Cuts Blood Pressure in Just 20 Days, Study Shows
A new clinical trial found that taking peppermint oil twice a day significantly lowered blood pressure and improved cholesterol in just 20 days.
May 19 PhysicsScientists Discovered That Time Itself Can Be Quantum
A new study shows that the most precise clocks ever built can experience multiple versions of time at once — and we can now test this in a real lab.
May 19 PhysicsThe Number Physics Cannot Pin Down: NIST Measures Big G
Scientists redid a 25-year-old gravity test with the same instrument. The new value of G disagrees with the old one. Here is why that matters.
May 19 BiologyFish Protein Lets Scientists Rewire Mouse Brains Like Code
A tiny protein from white perch fish lets scientists connect two brain cells like soldering wires. The result changed how mice handled stress.
May 17 AIHow AI Is Quietly Changing the Way Every Human Mind Works
AI is no longer just a tool you use. New research shows it is quietly reshaping how humans think, remember, learn, and make decisions every day.
May 17Scientists Found Teeth That Rewrote the Human Family Tree
Ancient teeth dug from Ethiopian soil show two of our earliest human relatives were neighbours 2.6 million years ago — far earlier than anyone knew.
May 16 ClimateSuper El Niño 2026: Pacific Ocean Is Heating Up Faster Than Expected
Pacific Ocean is warming faster than any time in 40 years. Scientists now say there is a 100% chance of Super El Niño by late 2026. Here is what happens next.
May 16 MedicineWhy Your Body Starts to Slow Down at Age 35, Not 50 or 60
A 47-year Swedish study followed 427 people from age 16 to 63 and found the body starts losing strength at 35. But exercise at any age still helps.
May 15 BiologyBaby Fish Cells Use a Simple Tissue Trick to Build a Body
Scientists found a clever trick baby zebrafish use to build their tiny bodies. Their soft tissue stiffens at just the right moment to shape new cells.
May 15Dinosaur Parents Gave Babies Special Food 75M Years Ago
New fossil teeth show dinosaur parents brought softer, richer food to their babies 75 million years ago, pushing bird-like parenting deep into prehistory.
May 12 AI & TECHNOLOGYThis AI Designs Molecules From Plain English Descriptions
EPFL's Synthegy lets chemists describe what they want in everyday language and receive ranked synthesis pathways instantly. AI chemistry just crossed a new threshold.
May 12 BiologyFossils We Called Animals Were Bacteria All Along
540-million-year-old Brazilian fossils once believed to be early animal trails are actually preserved bacteria and algae. The discovery rewrites what we know about the Ediacaran period.
May 12How Did Humans Survive the Toba Supervolcano?
74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano plunged Earth into darkness. Archaeologists now have evidence early humans didn't collapse — they innovated. Here's what the ash revealed.
May 11 BIOLOGYCheap Vitamin B3 Extends Life 40x in Fatal Baby Disease
Babies with NAXD disease die within days. A genome-wide CRISPR screen just revealed that a daily vitamin B3 shot extended their lifespan more than 40-fold in mice — with zero neuropathology.
May 11 PhysicsSchrödinger's Color Mystery Solved After 100 Years
Scientists at Los Alamos finally completed Schrödinger's century-old color theory — revealing that how you see red, blue, and green is hardwired into your brain's geometry.
May 11 GadgetsFitbit Air: The Screenless Tracker Rewriting Health Science
Fitbit Air ditch the screen and tracks your heart rhythm, sleep stages, and SpO2 around the clock. Here's what the science behind it actually means for you.
May 10 ClimateVolcano Plume Reveals a New Way to Track Methane Loss
Inside the Hunga Tonga eruption plume, satellites caught a chemical fingerprint pointing to 900 tonnes of methane destroyed per day — and a new climate verification tool.
May 10 PhysicsNeutral pH Battery That's Safe to Pour Down the Drain
Researchers built a pH-7 aqueous battery using tofu brine as electrolyte. It survives 120,000 cycles and can be legally discarded — no toxic waste, no environmental harm.