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Archaeologists Found a 10,000-Year-Old Fire Kit Made From Fungi
Eighty-two bracket fungi recovered from a Stone Age site in Yorkshire — most burnt, many carefully stripped and sliced — tell the story of a fire-making technology so reliable it spread across an…
Mar 15 Biology & Life SciencesThe 2D Crystal That Bends Light Like Nothing Else on Earth
A hair-thin flake of the ferroelectric mineral CuInP2S6 has shattered birefringence records in the blue-ultraviolet range — and its strange optical behaviour can be controlled electronically…
Mar 14 Biology & Life SciencesDoes Health Insurance Actually Improve Your Health? What the Science Really Says
Hundreds of studies link health insurance to better health — but does coverage actually cause better outcomes? A landmark review by Levy & Meltzer separates correlation from causation and reveals who…
Mar 14 Artificial IntelligenceAI in Medicine: What It Can Already Do, Where It's Failing, and Why Doctors Aren't Ready
A landmark paper from Université Libre de Bruxelles maps AI's real-world clinical applications across cardiology, neurology, and oncology — and exposes a quiet replication crisis, an ethics vacuum…
Mar 14 Artificial IntelligenceHow AI Is Transforming Education: Benefits, Risks & What's Next
From personalized learning to AI chatbots and automated grading, artificial intelligence is reshaping education at every level. Here's what the latest research reveals about the opportunities — and…
Mar 14 Medicine & HealthReversing Prediabetes Could Cut Your Heart Risk in Half
A landmark 20-year Lancet study finds that reversing prediabetes through lifestyle changes cuts the risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death by more than half.
Mar 14 Opinion & AnalysisWhy Rich People Live Longer — And What You Can Actually Do About It
A major Japanese study tracked 8,000+ elderly people for six years and found that your income and education shape your lifespan far more than any single healthy habit.
Mar 14 Climate TechnologyEarth's Oxygen Has an Expiry Date — And It's Sooner Than You Think
Scientists calculate Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere has about 1 billion years left before the Sun's brightening triggers a catastrophic, irreversible collapse back to pre-life conditions.
Mar 13 Biology & Life SciencesThe Plant That Lets Beetles Eat Its Seeds — And Still Wins
A Japanese shrub depends entirely on a seed-eating beetle for pollination — then drops infested fruits early. New research reveals the surprisingly balanced deal behind a 34-million-year alliance.
Mar 13 Biology & Life SciencesWhat 400 Million Years of Plant DNA Is Finally Telling Us
A landmark algorithm called Conservatory has catalogued 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences across 284 plant species — including regulatory DNA older than the first flowers, with direct…
Mar 13 Climate TechnologyHow Road Traffic Is Driving Global Warming — And What Can Be Done
Road transport produces nearly a quarter of all global CO2 emissions — and the damage doesn't stop at the exhaust pipe. A landmark review maps traffic's full climate footprint and the mix of…
Mar 12 Biology & Life SciencesHarvard Study: Your Daily Multivitamin May Slow Aging DNA
A Harvard-led COSMOS trial of 958 adults found Centrum Silver slowed two mortality-predicting epigenetic clocks — PCGrimAge and PCPhenoAge — by up to 5 months. Here's what it means.
Mar 12 Biology & Life SciencesAlphaFold: The AI That Cracked Biology's Greatest Mystery
For 50 years, protein folding defeated science's best minds. Then DeepMind built AlphaFold — and solved it in minutes. Here's what it did, how it works, and why it changes everything.
Mar 11 Biology & Life SciencesHow Your Brain Knows Where You Are: The Discovery That Could Change Alzheimer's Diagnosis
A 7 Tesla MRI study from Fudan University has mapped the exact mechanism the hippocampus uses to distinguish familiar from unfamiliar space — and its breakdown may be the earliest detectable sign of…
Mar 11 Computing & QuantumSouth Korea Solves the Foldable Screen Problem With a Material That Keeps Its Brightness
A joint Seoul National University and Drexel University study published in Nature has produced a stretchable OLED that retains over 80% brightness after 100 bend cycles — powered by MXene electrodes…
Mar 11 Medicine & HealthScientists Discover Molecular Switch That Could Stop Breast Cancer From Spreading
Hiroshima University researchers identified how the VIPR2 receptor drives breast cancer growth and metastasis when it forms dimers — and found a peptide that breaks those dimers apart, suppressing…
Mar 11 Biology & Life SciencesLongevity Breakthrough: Humans May Live 200 Years
A landmark Buck Institute study combining cellular reprogramming, senolytics, and epigenetic reversal has produced the most significant human longevity data in a generation — and the implications are…