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The Guardian

Government will consider committee’s guidance that says mass screening ‘likely to cause more harm than good’ Most men in the UK will not be offered prostate cancer screening if the government accepts the final recommendation of an expert...

The Guardian

The insect may learn to associate the chemical Deet with a ‘blood meal’, researchers say It is a spray used worldwide to protect humans from mosquito bites, but now research suggests Deet can become attractive to the insects if they...

NASA Breaking News

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds — a staggering leap compared to the...

NASA Breaking News

1 min read How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at...

Science Blog

Six telescopes, spread across three continents, have been listening to the Sun for nearly four decades. Not to its light. To its sound. The Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network, or BiSON, tracks tiny pressure waves rippling through our...

Science Blog

It’s smaller than a thumbnail. A dense, whitish square, barely a millimetre thick, laser-cut from a folded membrane of polymer fibres thinner than human hair. Under a microscope the structure looks almost textile, a woven lattice with...

Science Blog

By the age of 3, a child already knows something that took engineers years to articulate: the eyes are not just organs of vision. They are organs of intention. A toddler watching an adult glance toward a bowl of strawberries will...

Science Blog

The muscle cluster flinched. Not a twitch caused by direct stimulation, but a contraction driven by signals travelling along axons that had grown, over weeks, from a miniature brain across a gap and into a miniature spinal cord. Nobody had...

Science Blog

  A droplet of treated wastewater falls thirty centimetres and strikes a thin plastic film. The impact lasts a fraction of a second. Fifteen LEDs flash on. This happens, over and over, inside a modest laboratory at Lanzhou Jiaotong...

Smithsonian Science

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the biggest ones being buried and preserved

Science News

Lab experiments suggest mosquitoes can smell DEET and learn to associate it with food, but it’s unclear whether that happens in the wild.

Popular Science

Sunburn and mosquito bites go together in the summer like a hot dog and ketchup. To keep from becoming a mosquito buffet, most of us turn to bug sprays with DEET.  An acronym built from its scientific identification...

Carbon Brief

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Several dead as record...

STAT News

As the FIFA World Cup approaches, speculation on social media and cable news has already begun: Could Ebola spread at the tournament? The short answer is that it is extremely unlikely. Read the rest…

STAT News

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech...

SciTech Daily

UCLA researchers gave T cells a protected supply of sugar, allowing them to attack solid tumors more effectively. UCLA researchers have developed a way to give immune cells a fuel supply that tumors cannot take away, sharply improving how...

SciTech Daily

Regular aerobic exercise may reduce inflammation, support brain health, and help slow the progression of symptoms. With no known cure for Parkinson’s disease, exercise has emerged as one of the most promising tools for helping slow the...

Quanta Magazine

The sun is one of the most studied objects in the history of science. The ancient Babylonians and Chinese tracked sunspots and solar eclipses, etching their observations into clay tablets; these records would outlast their civilizations....

Science Blog

Feed enough heartbeats into an AI and it starts to see things clinicians have never thought to look for. That, in essence, is what happened when researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine pointed a neural network trained on...

Science Blog

  Start with a skin cell. Bathe it in the right cocktail of chemical signals and it forgets what it is, regressing to a state of biological openness, capable of becoming almost anything. Over the next several months, coax it toward...

Science Blog

Point a submillimetre telescope at almost any region of active star formation and you’ll notice the same odd geometry. Gas doesn’t collapse inward uniformly, the way you might expect if gravity were simply pulling a cloud together. Instead...

Science Blog

In a greenhouse at Washington State University Vancouver, two strains of soil bacteria are being pressed together on a nutrient plate, swapping DNA at the rate that evolution normally manages only over millions of years. One bacterium...

Science Blog

Your immune system, when it turns against you, does so methodically. In rheumatoid arthritis the synovial membrane, that thin lining cushioning every joint, becomes something else entirely: an invasive tissue that thickens, spreads, and...

Science Blog

The most anxious generation in recorded history did not become that way because of their phones. That is the uncomfortable implication of a study published this week in Psychological Bulletin, which tracked perfectionism in college...

NASA Breaking News

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir works on InSPA-StemCellEX-H2 inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. Microgravity samples will be frozen and returned to Earth for further analysis of stem cell expansion in space. NASA Expedition 74 astronauts...

Nature.com

Nature, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01713-3A new AI tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures. Plus, a biology lab run by ten robots and whether we can truly trust...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world. But a new way of making these cells could dramatically drive down the cost

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, but also build more intelligent AI

PsyPost

A recent study published in The Journal of Social Psychology suggests that presenting people with exaggerated arguments in favor of a controversial topic might actually make them oppose it more strongly. By testing this persuasion...

SciTech Daily

Adolescent cannabis use was linked to higher risks of later psychotic, bipolar, depressive, and anxiety disorders. A large new study published in JAMA Health Forum on Feb. 20, 2026, reports that teens who use cannabis may have a...

STAT News

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. I admit, I’m a little behind reading “The Odyssey.” I’ve gotten distracted by “East of Eden.” Send...

STAT News

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Scientists are reporting early but meaningful progress in engineered heart patches, and GSK has a...

STAT News

Top of the morning to you. And a fine one it is here at the Pharmalot campus, where the official mascots are quietly snoozing now that our shortest person has returned to her out-of-town studies. As for us, we are downing another cup of...

Science News

The new test may catch active tuberculosis in those with low access to health care or who have trouble making the phlegm needed for traditional tests.

Nature.com

Nature, Published online: 28 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01589-3Science and society are undergoing rapid change. Nature wants to know how this is affecting careers, workplace culture and salaries.

MIT Technology Review

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. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went...

Carbon Brief

Europe has been hit by a searing heatwave, which has shattered temperature records across France, Spain and the UK. In London, for example, the mercury hit a record high for May of 35.1C at Kew Gardens on Tuesday 26 May, breaking the...

PsyPost

An analysis of the Estonian Biobank data found that men report substantially higher sexual desire than women. Sexual desire declined with age, more steeply for women, and it was associated with a bisexual or pansexual orientation, recent...

STAT News

In early January, the Food and Drug Administration delivered on the Trump administration’s deregulatory promises by allowing more wellness products to be marketed without the agency’s authorization. Leaders at smart ring maker Oura swiftly...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Helen Phillips, winner of the Climate Fiction prize for her novel Hum, on if stories can make a difference, her anxieties and writing about the climate

Chemistry World

Two deaths confirmed, nine missing and nine others injured after chemical tank ruptured

STAT News

This is the online version of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a subscriber-only newsletter. STAT+ subscribers can sign up here to get it delivered to their inbox. STAT is also producing a free pop-up newsletter about this year’s ASCO...

Wired Science

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were launched during the Covid-19 pandemic. The group lost its funding under Trump in part due to conspiracy theories.

MIT Technology Review

This year, there’s been a wave of notable energy companies going public via IPO in the US. The solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, to the tune of $6 billion. X-energy, which is building small modular nuclear...

MIT Technology Review

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met...

New Scientist (Pay Wall)

Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could give rise to vast numbers of rocky planets, some even the size of stars

Ars Technica

Forecasters are calling for below-average activity this hurricane season, which begins Monday, June 1. The National Weather Service is predicting eight to 14 named storms, including three to six hurricanes and one to three major hurricanes...

Scientific American

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave and evolve

PsyPost

New research published in the British Journal of Psychology suggests that holding an exaggerated sense of superiority about one’s social class tends to foster belief in conspiracy theories regarding psychological help. These attitudes can...

Chemistry World

Barry Sharpless and his team first introduced the concept of ‘clicking’ molecules together 25 years ago