A new analysis from a large, single-centre cohort suggests that when immune checkpoint inhibitors are given can meaningfully shape outcomes for patients with advanced cancer. The study, reported in British Journal of Cancer,
The Submillimeter Array (SMA), an 8-telescope radio interferometer located near the summit of Maunakea in Hawaii, reached an important milestone early this year. On January 26th, 2026, scientists from the Harvard & Smithsonian
How life started on our own planet may not seem as sexy as finding evidence for life on Mars, or the icy moons of Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first
In Brief Posted: 12:30 PM PDT · July 18, 2026 Waymo says robotaxi service has resumed after it made “temporary adjustments” in San Francisco amidst a power outage that appears to have affected
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, leading to a perhaps-inevitable wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although Kimi K3
GRAND GEDEH, Liberia – In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More than half of what’s left is in
In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking
Breeding crops for thousands of years has narrowed genetic diversity into tight corridors, delivering steady gains—yet today progress is slowing. Heritability-based expectations often suggest more hidden variance should exist, but breeding programmes struggle
A new cross-sectional study published in BMC Geriatrics reports a detailed, data-driven look at how physical health measures differ among people grouped by fall risk. The work, led by Banarjee, Lafontant, and Suarez
Flow batteries are gaining attention as a practical route to storing renewable electricity, addressing a central barrier to the clean-energy transition: the absence of large-scale, durable energy-storage systems. Among the most promising designs
