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A Single Crystal Acts Like a Mirror One Way and Glass the Other, Bending Light Harder Than Any Known Natural Material

Take a sliver of molybdenum oxychloride, lay it on a chip of silicon, and turn it slowly under polarized light. At one angle it gleams back at you, bright and yellowish, every bit a metal. Rotate it ninety degrees and the shine drains...

Jun 01, 2026

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The Missing Notebooks That Solved a 25-Year-Old Paleontology Mystery

A Blood-Feeding Fly Dims Its Own Eyes Once It Settles on a Host

On TikTok, an Illegal Vape Arrives Disguised as Lip Gloss

A Single Crystal Acts Like a Mirror One Way and Glass the Other, Bending Light Harder Than Any Known Natural Material

Probe Thinner Than a Hair Can Now Listen to Brain Cells and Boss Them Around at the Same Time

A Repeating Radio Pulse Turns Out to Be Two Stars Locked in a Death Spiral

Why Fixing a Person’s Sleep Might Also Lift Their Depression

STAT+: Medicare’s mum on GLP-1s, and Massachusetts sues United

As FDA misses deadline on electric shock ban, disability advocates speak out

How a Giant Moon and a Steam Atmosphere Built the Recipe for Life

More young people are looking to AI chatbots for mental health help

The Dirt That Refused To Die

Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88

Pretty in Pink

Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new drug targets

Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest

Can Polymarket predict the progress of science, or are subject-experts better?

A Faster Way To Forecast Alien Weather

Artificial intelligence sheds light on how some brains resist Alzheimer’s memory loss

STAT+: A turning point for pancreatic cancer patients

Opinion: What should hospitals do when patients demand unvaccinated donor blood?

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about pancreatic and lung cancer drugs, China biotech growth, and more

CDC says containing the spread of Ebola is top priority

Gut Microbes Help Decide How Much Selenium Your Body Keeps

Why Some Heavy Drinkers Grow Giant Mitochondria That Guard the Liver, for a While

Vaccine Built From Person’s Tumor Is Still Holding Melanoma Back Five Years On

When the Teacher Enjoys the Lesson, the Whole Class Does Better at Math

Weight Loss Drug Revolution Could Leave Britain’s Poorest Patients Behind

Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada

Poor supervision is pushing young researchers out of academia

A tiny part of your brain may still listen under anesthesia

Baby raccoon found in chimney gets a nice bubble bath

The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions

STAT+: Servier to buy Edgewise Therapeutics’ muscular dystrophy drug

AI chatbots fail medical misinformation test, returning inaccurate and fabricated advice

Why it’s time to bin recommendation letters in science job applications

Science fiction: nine lab-life novels for your holiday reading

Scientists Made Older Mice Biologically Younger Using Gut Microbes

Scientists Discover a Simple Writing Test That May Detect Cognitive Impairment

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

Hurricane season explained—and what to expect in 2026

Scientists are racing to stop a type of Ebola we have no vaccine for

‘Sexual Chocolate’ Faces Recalls After FDA Tests Reveal Undisclosed Viagra

OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths

Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long?

Scientists Finally Uncover Why Ozempic Stops Working for Some People

Daily briefing: Pigeons might find their way by following their liver

How long can humans live? We simply don’t know

The Painful Truth About Long Covid

Polarization is tearing personal relationships apart, with Democrats initiating the majority of political breakups