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

37Science

AI in Doctoral Training Balancing Skills and Tools

AI in Doctoral Training Balancing Skills and Tools Two Ways to Read the Same Shift Graduate students are adopting artificial intelligence tools at a pace that has outpaced the institutions meant to train them. Doctoral...

13 Sep 2026

38Science

Quarry Reveals Denisovan Life Over 100000 Years

Quarry Reveals Denisovan Life Over 100000 Years The Accidental Find That Opened a Stone Age Window The story begins with a search for something else entirely. An abandoned quarry in southwestern China was not excavated...

12 Sep 2026

39Science

UN votes to replace Mercator map with Equal Earth

UN votes to replace Mercator map with Equal Earth A Compass Rose and a Hall of Mirrors A sailor trusts a compass needle to point north. A student trusts a classroom map to show the world as it is. Both instruments can...

12 Sep 2026

40Science

Structure Reveals Hidden GPCR-Like Proteins in Dark Proteome

Structure Reveals Hidden GPCR Like Proteins in Dark Proteome When the Tools We Trust Go Blind Sequence similarity has long been the workhorse of protein annotation. If a new protein looks like a known one, we assume it...

12 Sep 2026

41Science

AI Algorithms Drive Autonomous Space Exploration

AI Algorithms Drive Autonomous Space Exploration Simulating a Voyage No Human Can Steer A spacecraft billions of miles from Earth faces an unexpected gravitational nudge. A course correction is needed now. But a signal...

12 Sep 2026

42Science

NOAA Plan Weakens Fisheries Science and Habitat Protection

NOAA Plan Weakens Fisheries Science and Habitat Protection A Roadmap That Redefines Protection In 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced new agency priorities it described as a commitment to...

12 Sep 2026

43Science

Single Atom Splits Into Two Realities in Quantum Test

Single Atom Splits Into Two Realities in Quantum Test One Parameter That Rewrites the Rules Nearly a century ago, physicists worked out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. Their solution carries enormous weight....

12 Sep 2026

44Science

Paintings as Scientific Records of Lost Species

Paintings as Scientific Records of Lost Species A Dutch Still Life Becomes a Data Set A naming system built for something else entirely now lets biologists read historical paintings as scientific records. Carl Linnaeus...

11 Sep 2026

45Science

Global Flip in Foraminifera Shell Coiling Explained

Global Flip in Foraminifera Shell Coiling Explained A Global Switch No Local Cause Can Explain Foraminifera are single celled organisms that build tiny spiral shells, and they are everywhere in the ocean. From the...

11 Sep 2026

46Science

Former Linebacker Finds Hope in Red Light Brain Therapy

Former Linebacker Finds Hope in Red Light Brain Therapy A Linebacker's Collapse and the Diagnosis That Followed Larry Carr held a Ph.D. in physiology and exercise physiology. 6] He had been a star middle linebacker for...

11 Sep 2026

47Science

Yunnan Cave Yields Richest Denisovan Fossil Trove

Yunnan Cave Yields Richest Denisovan Fossil Trove What Sat Buried Beneath a Chinese Hillside Southwestern China's Yunnan Province is a landscape of limestone ridges and river valleys. For decades, one particular...

11 Sep 2026

48Science

Personal Locator Beacon Saves Five After Boat Sinks

Personal Locator Beacon Saves Five After Boat Sinks When a Cooler Becomes a Lifeline A message in a bottle and a satellite distress signal share the same operating principle: both trust a stranger to find them. The...

11 Sep 2026