The origins of Alzheimer’s remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete inside brain cells.
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with the build-up…

The origins of Alzheimer’s remain contentious, but a new study suggests the disease may emerge as two key proteins compete inside brain cells.
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with the build-up…

April 4, 2026
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Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to science
The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

Octopuses are a useful reminder that complex life can be organized in very different ways. With no backbone, their anatomy departs sharply from the body plans many people are familiar with. They are classified as cephalopods, a class of animals…

April 4, 2026
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Where is Artemis II now? NASA mission is now closer to moon than Earth
The third day of the Artemis II mission was relatively quiet, as four astronauts trek out to fly around the moon

April 4, 2026
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The mathematical formula that reveals when Easter is every year
You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss

When most people think about “healthy eating”, they usually focus on what they eat.
That might mean trying to eat more fruit and vegetables or less fast food, or counting calories.
But there’s a lot more to healthy eating than just dietary…

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.
Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern…

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

The long-awaited launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission dominated science news this week, with the excitement peaking Wednesday (April 1) as the space agency’s first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years blasted off from Cape Canaveral,…

This week in science: NASA launches a historic Moon mission; US experts publish new cholesterol guidelines; archaeologists identify what may be the world’s oldest ‘dice’; and much more!