Science

Two optical clocks built around single lutetium-176 ions have been compared directly against each other, and they agree down to the 19th digit, a group at the National University of Singapore…

Researchers with the PsychAD Consortium have mapped gene activity in 1.3 million individual cell nuclei from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a front-of-brain area used for planning and reasoning,…

Wastewater surveillance run alongside clinical testing through Ontario's 2025 measles outbreak followed the epidemic closely but did not warn of it in advance, a team from the University of Windsor,…

A patch of ground on the young Earth could have had everything going for it. Warm rock, liquid water, a supply of the right molecules, a few million years of quiet. Then another body tens of…

An international working group led by the German Society for Infectious Diseases has published a consensus guideline for personalized bacteriophage therapy, the treatment of a bacterial infection…

A team at Aarhus University injected light-sensitive nanoparticles into the eyes of blind mice and recorded light responses in the animals' visual cortex, in a paper published Sept. 22 in Nature…

Amgen said on Sept. 22, 2026, that a Phase 3 trial of its experimental drug dazodalibep met its main goal in adults with Sjögren's disease, and did not say by how much. Sjögren's disease is an…

Researchers at the University of Santiago de Compostela have pooled seven earlier meta-analyses covering more than 3 million participants, and report that the small association between acetaminophen…

The Food and Drug Administration approved imlunestrant in combination with abemaciclib on Sept. 18, 2026, for adults with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors carry a mutation in the…

Tin is what makes bronze bronze, and it is the one ingredient the Shang should not have had. Copper turns up across northern China, and lead is more widespread still, but tin is scarce anywhere north…

Great tits arriving from outside a population, rather than natural selection acting on the birds already there, explain when that population's genetics shifted and when it held still. Simon Evans and…

An experimental therapy switched the hepatitis B virus off inside the liver cells of mice, and three monthly doses left up to 90% of treated animals with no detectable virus six months later. The…