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Science

What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.

25Science

Brazil Science Philanthropy Fills Funding Gaps

Brazil Science Philanthropy Fills Funding Gaps When One Line Item Decides Everything Brazil's research system has long rested on a single assumption: that government money will arrive, and that it will cover every line...

14 Sep 2026

26Science

Underwater Perovskite Solar Cells Generate Power in Deep Sea

Underwater Perovskite Solar Cells Generate Power in Deep Sea A Material That Should Not Survive Underwater Solar cells made from perovskites instead of silicon have always involved trade offs. They can be produced...

14 Sep 2026

27Science

AI and De-Extinction: Rewriting Extinction With Code

AI and De Extinction: Rewriting Extinction With Code How Language Models Learned to Read DNA The path toward bringing back vanished species did not begin with a grand plan. It began with a tool built for something else...

14 Sep 2026

28Science

GDP Alone Cant Measure a Nations True Health

GDP Alone Can't Measure a Nation's True Health A Dashboard Beyond the Single Number For most of the last eighty years, a nation's health has been read off one figure: gross domestic product, the total market value of...

14 Sep 2026

29Science

Cosmic Origins of Elements in the Human Body

Cosmic Origins of Elements in the Human Body A Simulation of Origins Nobody Has Watched Every atom of hydrogen in the human body, and every hydrogen atom in every drop of water on Earth, traces back to the Big Bang....

14 Sep 2026

30Science

Nigeria Builds Its Own Brain Science Pipeline

Nigeria Builds Its Own Brain Science Pipeline A Shift From Buying Knowledge to Making It The Neuroscience Society of Nigeria has called for the country to stop relying on research produced elsewhere and instead build a...

14 Sep 2026

31Science

Nasal vaccines aim to block COVID transmission at the source

Nasal vaccines aim to block COVID transmission at the source A Spray Born From an Unlikely Blueprint The technology did not start out as a pandemic tool. It began as a way to protect children from a seasonal illness...

14 Sep 2026

32Science

Norwegian Family Genetic Study Rewrites Trait Inheritance Rules

Norwegian Family Genetic Study Rewrites Trait Inheritance Rules A Norwegian Cohort Rewrites the Rules For decades, geneticists studying human traits faced a stubborn limitation: they could measure a person's genes, or...

13 Sep 2026

33Science

Six ways to get drugs where they need to go

Six ways to get drugs where they need to go The Gap Between Potency and Arrival A drug can be perfect in the test tube and useless in the body. That is the uncomfortable arithmetic at the center of a special collection...

13 Sep 2026

34Science

Bacterial Couriers for Targeted Cancer Drug Delivery

Bacterial Couriers for Targeted Cancer Drug Delivery When the Poison Becomes the Vehicle A bacterium that causes food poisoning would seem like the last thing a cancer patient needs. Yet the same properties that make...

13 Sep 2026

35Science

Drug Delivery Shift From Particles to Immune Tolerance

Drug Delivery Shift From Particles to Immune Tolerance The Accident That Rewrote the Rulebook A drug that never reaches its target is not a weak drug — it is no drug at all. This is the plain arithmetic behind a body of...

13 Sep 2026

36Science

Phone Tutoring Keeps Kids Learning When Schools Shut

Phone Tutoring Keeps Kids Learning When Schools Shut The Question That Kept Returning For as long as mass schooling has existed, one question has resisted a clean answer: when a crisis shuts the school gates, what...

13 Sep 2026