Humanity
The inspiring, tragic, and baffling follies of humanity
Mystics Talked About an Inner Light. Scientists May Have Found One in Your Cells
A new study finds a strange glow in your cells’ powerhouses that may be part light, part matter, and all quantum.
By Lauren Adams • Oct 9, 2026
Humans Have Been Getting High for Longer than We Thought
A 25,000-year-old habit in Indonesia may be the earliest evidence yet of humans deliberately using a psychoactive drug.
By Sarah Simon • Oct 5, 2026
Smell Chocolate, Lift More? Science Says Yes
Researchers in Malaysia found that a whiff of 90% cocoa helped gym rats grind out more reps on leg day.
By Nate Gesar • Sep 29, 2026
How to Build a Universe in a Bottle
Inside a glass tube, researchers are manufacturing cosmic dust that looks just like the grains drifting through deep space. They're using it to read the origin story of life‑friendly molecules.
By Ethan Denma • Sep 17, 2026
Scientists Found The Deep-Sleep Circuit That Builds Muscle, Burns Fat, and Stimulates the Brain
Ready to get some rest and get ripped?
By Ethan Denma • Aug 25, 2026
Are We on the Same Wavelength? Science May Show How You’re Vibing with Someone
Researchers studied what happens when brain waves sync up, using community neuroscience samples that include everyone from students and artists to Bad Bunny and Bob Weir.
By Sarah Simon • Aug 20, 2026
The Cancer Killer Hiding in a Tree Frog’s Intestines
A gut bacterium derived from the Japanese tree frog makes oxygen-starved tumors in mice its home, then wipes them out. It’s opening a narrow but intriguing window into future cancer therapies.
By Marc Alexander • Aug 18, 2026
The Baby Rattlesnake Superkiller Myth You Heard at Summer Camp Is Wrong
A 2026 study shows baby rattlesnakes control their venom and inject far less than adults, dismantling a media-driven myth with real medical stakes.
By Ethan Denma • Aug 10, 2026
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A Physicist Made Time Stop in a Jar of Atoms. Kind Of
By building a clock out of a cold-atom system's own disorder, a physicist produced the first controlled evidence that time might emerge from change itself rather than tick quietly in the background.
By Nate Gesar • Aug 3, 2026
Harvard Made a DNA-Writing Chip That Treats Molecules Like a Hard Drive
A silicon chip smaller than a cube of sugar uses electricity and water to print short strands of DNA, pointing toward a future where we might save photos and files not on metal disks and flash drives, but inside molecules.
By Lauren Adams • Jul 23, 2026
A Nasal Spray Reversed Brain Aging in Mice. Humans Could Be Next
The Texas A&M therapy targets the chronic brain inflammation behind Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Will this mouse nasal spray soon hit humanity’s noses?
By Marc Alexander • Jul 22, 2026
Next Time You're Late, Blame the Quantum Collapse of Time
New observations around quantum collapse suggest timekeeping has a fundamental limit, giving tardiness a sliver of theoretical cover.
By Reanna Gonzalez • Jul 16, 2026
'Real Alien Sh*T': Jellyfish Drone Swarm Downed U.S. Fighter Jet in Iran
After crashing in Iran, an F‑15 pilot reported a minefield of drones drifting in a jellyfish formation, according to a bombshell report.
By Lauren Weiner • Jul 14, 2026
The Forever Young Butterfly That Didn't Age
Deep in rainforests across the Americas, a pollen-eating insect is living close to a full year and gripping onto life as hard at the end as it did at the start. Could it be a new blueprint for the biology of longevity?
By Ethan Denma • Jul 8, 2026
Top 5 Wild Claims from the Government’s MK Ultra Hearing: Nazis, Charles Manson, and a CIA Cover-Up
Lawmakers dragged the CIA’s most infamous mind‑control program back into the light, reviving decades-old allegations of Nazi doctors, celebrity killers, and vanished files.
By Jeff Kent • Jul 2, 2026