Science

Switching on a rare type of nerve cell in the outer layer of the mouse brain was enough to put the animals to sleep, a research team reports in Nature. Sleep is usually traced to structures below the…

A genome sequence can end a family's search for an answer, and it can also hand them a list. Among the millions of spelling differences that make one person's DNA unlike anyone else's, a clinical…

DeepSeek moved its V4.1-Flash model into general availability on Sept. 10, 2026, and set a date to stop serving the model above it. From 04:00 UTC on Sept. 14, the company's release note says, every…

You took a few thousand steps today, and almost every one of them started the same way. The back of the heel touched down first, slightly ahead of the rest of the foot, and the load rolled forward…

OpenAI has published two manuscripts claiming that smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations, which describe how fluids move, can break down after a finite time, and has released…

The BESIII collaboration has measured |Vus|, the number that sets how often a strange quark turns into an up quark, from the decay of a short-lived particle called the lambda. The value, published…

Novartis reported on Sept. 8 that its Phase III HARBOR trial of del-desiran missed its main goal. The drug did not produce a statistically significant improvement over placebo on video hand-opening…

A fossil of Charnia, a frond-like organism that lived about 560 million years ago, has been found preserved in three dimensions in a sheep field in Finnmark, Arctic Norway. A team led by the…

Among Chinese adults who had never smoked, those with more carbon monoxide in their breath went on to develop Parkinson's disease less often than those with less, a team led from the University of…

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas on Sept. 8, a database of predicted molecular effects for 9 billion single-letter DNA changes (every one possible in the human genome) free to academic…

Six computer models that estimate a person's age from proteins in the blood were run over blood samples from the same 42-patient drug trial, and all six scored the treated patients younger. Insilico…

In maternity wards in New Orleans, Omaha, the Twin Cities and New York City, women who had just given birth were handed a debit card and told it would be topped up on the same day every month until…