A Third of Americans Can’t Name the Three Branches of Government
Asked without answer choices, a third of U.S. adults cannot name the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the 2026 Annenberg…
Singles Will Forgive Almost Any Difference Except Politics
U.S. singles have grown far more willing to date across religious, social and financial divides, new survey data show, but…
Growing Black Holes Line Up Stars, Light and Shockwaves
Nine nearby Seyfert galaxies show a repeating pattern: star forming rings, black hole radiation cones, and shock heated gas positioned…
Zombie Cells Have Better Aging Evidence Than DNA Mutations
Transplanting a small number of aging cells into young mice can trigger frailty and, in one study, memory loss, a…
A Blood Test May Reveal Who Responds Best to Alzheimer’s Drug Lecanemab
Blood pressure, not brain scans, best predicted which patients cleared a key Alzheimer’s biomarker fastest after starting lecanemab, a Korea…
A Prediction Trick Lets Fewer Satellites Catch a Runaway One
Three chasing satellites outperformed a much larger fleet once researchers taught them to predict where an evasive satellite would move…
Old GPS Data Flagged Where a Giant Kamchatka Quake Would Hit
A probabilistic model built only from GNSS data collected years before 2025 flagged the same patch of Kamchatka’s megathrust that…
Cancer Drug CADD522 Rebuilds Mouse Bone and Melts Away Menopause Fat
Ovariectomised mice given a cancer therapy built more trabecular structure and lost body weight within eight weeks, hinting one molecule…
Repeated Falsehoods Can Make AI Models Change Their Mind
A study of seven large language models finds that an answer that looks reliable in a single exchange can become…
Urine Bacteria Turns a Steroid Precursor Into Testosterone
A urine-derived bacterium converted DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) into testosterone in culture, and structural modeling showed how one unusually flexible enzyme could…
Slow Pyrolysis Turns Toxic Crop Waste Into Useful Carbon
Contaminated crop residue does not have to be burned or buried. A review of pyrolysis studies finds that heating it…
Satellite Glow Revealed Forest Stress Before Beetles Killed Trees
A faint photosynthetic signal separated stressed forests from matched controls before widespread tree death was visible, but drought and coarse…