Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling that change is possible. That feeling, in…
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Ten Minutes of Exercise a Day Could Reduce your Colorectal Cancer Risk
A new study published in the International Journal of Cancer might add some extra encouragement to everyone trying to keep their New Year’s resolutions!
A lot of literature points to a preventative…
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The climate fight may not be won in the Amazon, but it can be lost there
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. After five decades studying the plants and peoples of the Amazon, Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist and co-founder of…
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Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria
Scientists have completed a large laboratory analysis of widely used human-made chemicals and found that 168 of them are harmful to bacteria that normally live in a healthy human gut. These substances slow or stop the growth of microbes that play…
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China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable
Scientists working with China’s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized “density-free regime” in fusion plasma experiments. In this state, the plasma remains stable…
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Total synthesis evolution: from structure confirmation to efficient drug discovery routes
- Evolving goals in total synthesis: Originally focused on structure confirmation and producing scarce natural products, the field now emphasises efficiency – shorter, more inventive synthetic routes that inspire new…
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Geometry shapes life: Embryo curvature acts as instruction manual for coordinated cell division
Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires precise coordination; otherwise, the embryo could develop serious complications. Scientists at ISTA have now demonstrated…
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Worm-Inspired Active Filaments Sweep Disorder into Order
Author(s): Emanuele Locatelli
The ability of single active filaments to cluster smaller particles could inspire new materials for building soft robots that perform biological functions.
[Physics 19, 2] Published Mon Jan 05, 2026
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Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down
As he addressed an audience of virologists from China, Australia, and Singapore at October’s Pandemic Research Alliance Symposium, Wei Zhao introduced an eye-catching idea.
The gene-editing technology Crispr is best known for delivering…
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Diode-Like Behavior Arising from Antiferromagnetism
Author(s): Michael Schirber
An antiferromagnet with a zigzag magnetic structure exhibits a diode effect that has potential applications in spintronics.
[Physics 19, 1] Published Mon Jan 05, 2026
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