JOURNALnautil.us16.09.2026
Cold Weather Could Predict an Increase in Heart Attacks Three Days in Advance
And the holidays are especially bad The post Cold Weather Could Predict an Increase in Heart Attacks Three Days in Advance appeared first on Nautilus.
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SCIENCEphys.org16.09.2026
Dogs show human-like brain activity when they restrain themselves
When we tell a dog "no" and it resists temptation, what happens in its brain? New research from the Department of Ethology at ELTE and the HUN-REN Research Centre of Natural Sciences suggests that dogs may do more than r
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JOURNALsciencenews.org16.09.2026
These mice have human (nerve cells) on the brain
Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.
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SCIENCEnewscientist.com16.09.2026
Why it is time to restate the case for the importance of research on animals
Recent progress on alternatives to animal testing is hugely welcome. But talk of "phasing out" animal research completely is misleading and could even be dangerous to scientists
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SCIENCEphys.org16.09.2026
From 10 to 22 years: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's mission has just been extended
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope hasn't yet reached its Sun–Earth L2 orbit, and it already has some good news. NASA has announced that the mission has enough fuel to potentially double its mission length. Though ini
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SCIENCEphys.org16.09.2026
Prime assembly can correct multiple mutations at once, pointing toward universal gene therapies
Genomic editing holds great potential yet continues to have limitations. Current methods either rely on untargeted gene delivery or short DNA edits that need to be individualized for each patient. A new paper published t
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JOURNALquantamagazine.org16.09.2026
Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.
Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Won
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JOURNALtechnologyreview.com15.09.2026
The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Alt
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JOURNALbigthink.com15.09.2026
Misery is an emotional feature, not a glitch in the system
Tolstoy’s famous opening to Anna Karenina (1878) about happy families being all alike but unhappy ones each being unhappy in their own way applies just as well to feelings. There are simply more ways to feel bad than to
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JOURNALbigthink.com14.09.2026
Scientists map massive layer of life just beneath our feet
Directly beneath our feet stretches a world both smaller and much, much larger than the one we know. Scientists have just begun mapping what may well be the largest piece of infrastructure on Earth: a network of fungal t
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SCIENCEphys.org15.09.2026
Avoiding a sticky situation: How cells stop messenger RNAs from clumping together
Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is best known for carrying genetic instructions from DNA to the cellular machinery that makes proteins. But all RNA molecules have another, less appreciated property: They are naturally sticky.
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SCIENCEnature.com12.09.2026
Mismatch negativity matures in adolescence and without sensitivity to microglial depletion
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JOURNALthemarginalian.org11.09.2026
Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood
"We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us."
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JOURNALthemarginalian.org12.09.2026
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
"And it is so simple... You will instantly find how to live."
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FINANCEbbc.co.uk08.09.2026
'I performed on stage to get my first job' - the firms turning recruitment into competitions
Applicants have to pitch their ideas on stage in front of a panel of judges and an audience. But is this exciting or unfair?
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SCIENCEnewscientist.com07.09.2026
Laughter therapy may help people with chronic lung disease
An eight-week course of self-administered laughter therapy helped a small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease breathe more easily
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SCIENCEphys.org07.09.2026
AI governance model inspired by Pope Leo XIV aims to put ethics first
Researchers at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new model of artificial intelligence governance inspired by the teachings of Pope Leo XIV as set
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SCIENCEphys.org07.09.2026
Bumpy battery surfaces can masquerade as nanoscale ion pathways, misleading material design
A signal that appears to show ions moving inside a battery may, in fact, be an illusion caused by an uneven surface. A KAIST research team has identified the origin of this type of artifact, which can lead researchers to
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SCIENCEphys.org08.09.2026
Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry
We usually think of auroras as beautiful lights in the night sky. I see them as visible traces of a connection between the sun, Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere. This led me to an origin-of-life question: Could
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SCIENCEphys.org07.09.2026
The DESI legacy imaging survey releases the largest 2D map of the universe
In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the cosmos. Since then, the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have o
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