science 101
- LEGO-like crystals add light control to silicon chips
- Aurora returns for an encore
- Reading thousands of phage genes in one experiment
- 2026 Nobels: celebrating light, language and the long game
- Putting neural equation solvers on a variational footing
- 722 papers in one night: is OpenAI harming mathematics?
- Archive at the end of the world: Svalbard’s second vault
- Pointing an atom at a radio wave to find its direction
- How cleaning the air changed the methane budget
- A thawed slope turns a tremor into a landslide
- Harvest that the satellites counted
- Ancient proteins name Denisovan bones in a Chinese cave
- A language model that reads and writes genomes: Evo 2
- Mars hides a hot southern interior under its crust
- A graveyard of black holes, mapped in a new catalog
- A growth chart for the brain's white matter
- Antarctic ice shelf that gave way
- AI that designed its own viruses
- Two error-corrected qubits learn to talk
- A hydrogen bond that reaches across eleven carbons to set chirality
- Graphene that superconducts harder when the magnetic field rises
- The comet that came for the summer
- A weekly dual agonist that pairs fullness with calorie burn
- A drug built in six months for one baby
- A ductile metal that carries a load at 2,400 degrees
- Half-year report card for the oceans
- Webb finds a world that rains glass
- A cooler south, and a tropics that models miss
- Which came first, the black hole or its galaxy's stars?
- Training plastic-eating bacteria with a runaway virus
- The space station samples that came home in May
- Blue whale’s quiet comeback
- An mRNA flu vaccine edges out the old standard shot
- Three million years of calm carbon and a cooler planet
- A ten-thousand-planet haul from TESS first light
- A light-induced gap finally opens in graphene
- A sheltered cavity between Earth and the Moon
- Drought breeds drug-resistant soil microbes
- LHAASO measures the cosmic-ray knee one element at a time
- Webb directly images a young giant next to its star
- A three-million-year record of ice and air
- A community experiment that delayed early marriage
- A hexagonal diamond, in bulk
- A refrigerator that cools without helium-3
- RNA copies itself without a catalyst
- A star that went out instead of exploding
- Rice that survives the flood: a quiet Green Revolution
- Rare-disease AI and an in-brain gene editor
- A handprint sixty-seven thousand years old
- Oceans absorb another record year of heat
- Ten years of letting the Yangtze rest
- Caribbean reefs, cut short at the dinner table
- A network disorder, not just a dopamine one
- A backyard telescope finds a world of its own
- Quantum sensor network listening for dark matter walls
- The moon's newest visitor: a lander that listens
- Giant crystals from the young Earth's magma ocean
- Fusion's longest burn: the record nobody celebrated
- Telescope that traced fast radio bursts to binary stars
- A gut that brews its own alcohol
- An immune system that ages with its host
- A quantum array that refills itself while running
- Octopus skins of light: a camouflage made of colour
- A young blueprint for the Galaxy's most common planets
- Junk DNA, and a clue to Alzheimer's
- Fourteen disorders, five shared genetic roots
- The year's science and the months of discovery
- Light nuclei, surviving the fireball
- A ductile interface keeps solid batteries from cracking
- A seventh remission, and a gentler road to it
- A quartet of charm quarks
- Ancient DNA opens a window on Shimao
- A shared phonology under every language
- A four-step history of the mammalian jaw
- Six thousand qubits in a tweezer array
- Nested resonators lift the yield ceiling in on-chip optics
- Water worlds, brewed under pressure
- Diffusion models take on every molecule of life: AlphaFold 3
- Humanity moves more biomass than all land animals
- Reversing time to probe quantum dynamics
- Ancient corals, and the resilience they hint at
- Swapping one atom, remaking a drug's skeleton
- The week of the prizes and science’s annual roll call
- Big fires, and the warming they feed
- Muon magnetism lands on the Standard Model side
- Zebra finches, and the meaning in their calls
- Warming seas, shrinking reef buffers
- A battery that runs on hydride ions
- Turning hair into materials, gently
- Heatwaves, attributed to the carbon majors
- A black hole collision, the strongest yet
- A molecular magnifying glass for protein clumps
- Engineered bacteria that degrade five pollutants at once
- Magnetic switchbacks: the engine of the fast solar wind
- A record-hot ocean, year after year
- When logical qubits beat the physical error floor
- Donanemab slows dementia: a modest but real gain
- Copper sulfur: the death of a superconductor claim
- DESI's first map leaves the cosmological constant in question
- A human pangenome, drafted from forty-seven genomes
- Ignition on the record: Peer review catches up with a historic shot