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Four Students Had an Unusual Idea To Make Drinks Safer. Then Their Invention Took Off
Four engineering students were determined to find a way to help prevent sexual assault after seeing how deeply the crime had affected people close to them. Their solution was unlike anything they had worked on before: a clear fingernail polish designed to change color when it comes into contact with certain drugs that can be…
Scientists Say 1 In 8 Cancer Cases Are Linked To Infections We Can Prevent
with researchers estimating that around 2.3 million cancer cases diagnosed worldwide in 2024 were linked to infections. That works out to roughly 12% of all new cancer cases, meaning about one in every eight cancer diagnoses was attributable to one of 12 cancer-causing infectious agents examined in the study. The finding is striking because several…
Scientists Just Found a Third Type of Magnetism, And It Could Change Electronics
For more than a century, physicists largely treated magnetism as a two-option system. Materials either had their tiny magnetic moments lined up like a conventional magnet, or those moments pointed in opposite directions and cancelled each other out. Then one stubborn piece of metal began behaving as though the rules had left something important out.…
These Wildlife Photos Caught Animals Looking Absolutely Ridiculous
Wildlife photography is usually associated with dramatic predators, breathtaking landscapes and animals frozen in moments of raw power. But some of the best photographs happen when nature accidentally produces something far more entertaining. The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards finalists have captured giraffes that look like they are wearing trees, walruses that resemble an Arctic crime…
More Singles Are Deciding They Like Life Without A Partner
For years, being single was treated like an unfinished chapter. Find someone, settle down, and move on to the next milestone. New research suggests a surprising number of Americans are no longer waiting for that chapter to begin. One in four single adults say they would stay single even if their “perfect match” appeared tomorrow,…
Scientists Found A Strange Signal Hidden Inside Living Cells
Something inside living cells appears to be producing a signal that researchers cannot easily explain with ordinary chemistry. A team in Shanghai detected an unusual oscillation at 71 terahertz in living human cells, mouse tissues and intact mitochondria, then found that the signal disappeared when the cellular structure was destroyed. The finding has reopened a…
The Three Albums People Turn To When Life Gets Hard
There is a strange moment after a breakup, a death, a career collapse, or one of those weeks when everything seems to go wrong. You open your music library and somehow end up playing the same album you heard during another terrible chapter years ago. For millions of listeners, three records have become especially powerful…
The Big Bang May Have Been A Cosmic Bounce After All
The universe may have had a beginning. Or it may have had a previous life that ended in a colossal collapse before bouncing back into the expanding cosmos we see today. A team of physicists has proposed a strange alternative to the standard picture of cosmic history: the event we call the Big Bang may…
Scientists Turned A Probiotic Into A Tiny Chemotherapy Factory
A bacterium commonly used as a probiotic has been genetically redesigned to manufacture chemotherapy inside tumors instead of sending the drug throughout the body. In experiments involving mice with colorectal cancer, the engineered bacteria helped three of seven treated tumors completely regress, while also triggering an immune response that affected cancer beyond the original treatment…
The Artist Creating Incredible Sculptures From Her Own Hair
A braid becomes a ram’s horns. Another rises into the shape of an animal, while extensions can become scales of justice, a wooden comb, or a body in motion. Ivorian artist Laetitia Ky has turned her own hair into an extraordinary form of sculpture inspired partly by African hairstyles documented before colonization. What began with…