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Ultra-Processed Foods May Harm Health Through Processing Itself, Not Just Poor Nutrition

Roughly half of what lands in the average American adult’s shopping trolley, and around 60 percent of what a child eats, now comes from foods built in factories rather than kitchens. Crisps, fizzy drinks, packaged breads, ready meals, the...

Jun 03, 2026

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Brain scans shed light on why people with autistic traits feel more shame and less guilt

Troubled waters: a plant protein senses when cells are running dry

Ubiquitin tags detected on non-protein biomolecules using new method

Nanostructure of tooth enamel casts light on dietary shifts as humans evolved

Tiny hubs of metabolic activity optimize nitrogen use in maize

How good are ‘AI doctors’ — and will they take over medicine?

What a royal bedchamber provides the queen bee

A maize gene that coordinates flowering aids drought resistance

How a rush for minerals is causing deforestation in tropical regions

Jupiter observations reveal a simple scaling law for particle acceleration

Recovery of plastic from mixed waste boosts recycling rates but affects quality

Queen cell architecture shapes honey bee queen development

Centromeric footprints preserve telomere integrity in ALT cancers

High-fidelity modular skeletons authenticate a Cambrian origin for Bryozoa

Enamel nanocrystal misorientation increased with meat-eating and agriculture

Cooperation conflicts with equality when allocating public goods

LASER couples damage sensing to ESCRT assembly for lysosome repair

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked laser using a Mamyshev oscillator

Nuclear shell structure governs short-range nucleon pairing

Commensal-derived acetylcholine enhances mucosal immune education

Mechanophore cross-linking enhances ballistic energy dissipation of polymers

Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices at room temperature

Spermine is an endogenous iron chelator that inhibits ferroptosis

Analysis of trade-offs of post-sorting plastic packaging

Plastoglobules compartmentalize nitrogen assimilation in maize

Cell-type-resolved genetic variation shapes inflammatory bowel disease risk

Teosinte alleles enhance nitrogen assimilation and seed protein in maize

Cold-induced peptide signalling secures pollen resilience and crop yield

Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa

Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression

Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond

Earth’s east–west albedo symmetry

A natural depsipeptide antibiotic binds the E-site of the bacterial ribosome

The size of tropical vegetation gross primary production

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Editorial Expression of Concern: Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo

Why Some Cancers Turn Deadly: Researchers Uncover a Hidden Trigger

The Best Exercise Combination for Longevity, According to a 30-Year Study

Exoplanetary Weather Watchers Find Strong Evidence of Magnetic Fields

A ‘mystery beetle’ is devouring North Carolina’s precious blueberries

Ultra-Processed Foods May Harm Health Through Processing Itself, Not Just Poor Nutrition

Renewable-Powered AI Isn’t As Clean As It Looks, According to UN Scientists

The Cat Stays Alive: Reading a Quantum Chip Without Wrecking It

A One-Atom Shuffle Reveals Hidden Cancer-Drug Pocket That AI Couldn’t Find

AI Identifies a Ray’s Prey From the Sound of Cracking Shells

A New Theory Says DMT Entities Might Be Real, and Proposes How to Test It

Rising Seas May Turn Mangrove Forests From Carbon Sinks Into Carbon Sources

Astronomers Accidentally Uncover Magnetic Fields on Alien Worlds That May Help Protect Their Atmospheres

A secret to making a queen bee may lie in the wax around it

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.