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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
Researchers Identify Rare Meteorite That Killed Dinosaurs, Reshaping Extinction Story
A new study pins the Chicxulub impact on a rare CO chondrite and hints that fine dust, rather than sulphur-rich fumes, delivered the final blow to life 66 million years ago.
By Jeff Kent • Aug 17, 2026
Lunar Customs: Why Some Scientists Want a Port of Entry on the Moon
To guard Earth from alien microbes hitchhiking home on Mars rocks, researchers are proposing a biocontainment base on the moon. A planetary firewall for the new space age.
By Serrae Bell • Aug 12, 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
Astronomers detected a powerful cosmic 'UFO'. It’s not what you think
It's called an ‘ultra-fast outflow,’ and it's exactly as dramatic as it sounds: multiple layers of wind blasting out 20 suns' worth of gas every year at extreme speed.
By Cambrie Juarez • Aug 4, 2026
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
AI Just Found 118 Hidden Worlds in NASA’s Data
Trained on hundreds of thousands of simulations, an algorithm called RAVEN has uncovered ultra‑short‑period worlds and rare Neptunian “desert” planets that could force a rewrite of planetary formation theory.
By Sarah Simon • Jul 29, 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
On a Planet With No Sunrises & No Sunsets, Scientists Hunt Life in the Twilight
By modeling heat flow beneath a fixed-sun super-Earth, physicists show its mid-latitudes could stay temperate as livable pockets even as one face burns and the other freezes.
By Jeff Kent • Jul 20, 2026