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Free School Lunches Cut Student Suspensions, and the Effect Is Biggest Where You’d Least Expect It

The cafeteria line, it turns out, is doing more than feeding children. A new study tracking suspension rates across American schools has found that providing free meals to every student, regardless of family income, reduces the likelihood...

May 20, 2026

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Sound Waves That Refuse to Die: A New Kind of Quantum Material Bends the Rules of Loss

Hidden Firewall Keeps Pancreatic Precancers in Check

Losing an Election Hurts. It Rarely Turns Voters Against Democracy.

Machine Learning Matched the Right Lifestyle Fix to Each Depressed Patient, Doubling Remission Rates

Himalayan Rivers Are Wandering Twice as Fast, and Climate Change Is Why

Nearly a Third of Rodents in the Pacific Northwest Carry Hantavirus Antibodies

Structured Coaching and Exercise Can Measurably Slow the Aging Process, Major Clinical Trial Finds

The Mathematics That Turns Spacetime Into a Crystal, Then a Black Hole

Free School Lunches Cut Student Suspensions, and the Effect Is Biggest Where You’d Least Expect It

Why Mums Are Such Effective Friendship Killers

Timing Your Vitamin C Could Blunt a Cancer Risk Hidden in Your Dinner

Ancient Rainforest Foragers Were Eating More Plants Than Anyone Realised

How the Age You First Had Sex Could Shape How You Age Decades Later

How Turning a Room Into a Giant Screen Gives Machines the 3D Vision They’ve Always Lacked

Tiny Ocean Drifter May Spend Half a Decade at Sea

T. Rex Had Tiny Arms Because Its Head Got Too Good at Killing

Sewage Is Spotting a Deadly Fungus Before Patients Fall Ill

Gray Mold Has Been Reading Your Strawberries for Years. We Just Figured Out How

Ancient Canadian Shield Rocks Are Leaking Hydrogen. Enough to Power Hundreds of Homes.

How Asteroid Strikes May Have Sparked Earth’s First Breath of Oxygen

A Single TV Segment Sent Leucovorin Prescriptions for Autistic Children Soaring 2,000 Percent

Cancer-Seeking Nanomotors Use Light to Unleash a Triple Chemical Attack on Tumors

Ancient Tooth Enamel Links Peking Man to People Living Today

Chip Smaller Than Fingernail Could Be Key to 6G’s Blinding Speed

Light Trick Rounds Up Thousands of Bacteria in Under a Minute

Poor Sleep Raises Alzheimer’s Brain Changes in Older Women at Genetic Risk

A Fatal Brain Disease Is Not What Researchers Expected. The Immune System Has Gone Quiet.

How Water Decides What Your Brain Learns and What It Forgets

A Pill That Keeps Your Throat Awake Could Transform Sleep Apnea Treatment

New, Shortest Path to the Moon Turns Out to Run Past the Moon First

Losing Weight Fast Really Does Work Better, and the Evidence Is Hard to Ignore

Cracks Are Appearing in the Geometric Assumption Underlying All of Modern Cosmology

Teaching Machines to Listen to All Their Sensors at Once

A Brain on Fire Rewired: Heat Therapy for Epilepsy Works by Reshaping Entire Neural Networks

Finnish Researchers Print Bone-Like Scaffolds That Let the Body Do the Rest

Southeast Asia’s Largest Dinosaur Lay Undiscovered at the Edge of a Village Pond

Solar Panels Lose a Third of Their Gains to Coal Pollution, Global Study Finds

Omega-3 Drinks Designed to Keep Astronauts Healthy on Deep Space Missions

Your Scarred Liver Is Already Fighting Back. Scientists Have Just Figured Out How

Stardust in the Ice: How Antarctic Cores Are Mapping Our Path Through the Galaxy

Most Americans Think AI Will Make Their Lives Worse. They Want Someone to Do Something About It

A Molecular Grappling Hook Could Keep Cancer Drugs Trapped Inside Tumors

APOE2 Keeps Neurons Young by Fixing Their DNA Before It Falls Apart

Electricity Trick Could Make Concrete Almost Carbon-Free

Visiting a Museum Once a Week Slows Biological Aging as Much as Regular Exercise

Why Regular Cannabis Users Have Lower Rates of Type 2 Diabetes

Africa May Be Splitting Apart Along a Hidden Rift Stretching From Tanzania to Namibia

Scientists Have Built a Hearing System That Tunes In to Whatever Your Brain Is Focusing On

Four Weeks of Eating Differently Can Make Your Body Biologically Younger, New Study Finds

Molecule in Brown Fat Could Transform Bone Disease Treatment