Every Tuesday, hundreds of millions of people in Chinese cities use WeChat Pay or Alipay on their phones to pay for things like subway rides, rent,…
Author: Sam Allcock
In Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, the salt crust at the Dallol crater is so thin that it cracks underfoot. If you make a mistake, you will fall…
A signal that no one could explain was hidden somewhere in a NASA data archive among gamma-ray measurements taken in December 2004. It was easily missed,…
When something fundamental is shifting but no one can quite agree on what it means just yet, a certain kind of tension settles over the financial…
Professor Carel le Roux made a statement in front of a group of obesity researchers in late June 2024 inside a conference center in São Paulo,…
Walk into a pharmacy in almost any major city right now and you’ll notice something that would have seemed unlikely five years ago: the most talked-about…
A paper that was published in Nature Neuroscience in March 2026 has an accompanying image that is worth pondering. Three panels, one for a mouse, one…
These days, if you walk into any endocrinology clinic in a big city, you’re likely to hear the same names—Ozempic, Wegovy, semaglutide—in the waiting room as…
Imagine a lab somewhere, with equipment set up on long metal tables, fluorescent lights humming overhead, and researchers gazing at readouts that most people would find…
Crawford Lake is a small lake in Ontario, Canada, where the water hardly moves at all. It remains motionless enough for its sediment layers to accumulate…