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…
Author: Sam Allcock
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…
The sky appears surprisingly straightforward on a chilly night away from city lights. A faint Milky Way band, a scattering of stars, or perhaps a satellite…
Relief is frequently the first topic of discussion when discussing student debt forgiveness. The prospect of erased loans is viewed as a game-changer by graduates, some…
The transition to technology-focused investing isn’t always obvious. It takes place in more subdued settings, such as conference rooms with views of Munich’s industrial districts, trading…
Rarely do dramatic headlines tell the story of the Inflation Reduction Act. It moves more covertly, through loan agreements, factory permits, data center proposals, and grant…
The hum of server racks conveys a subtle tension that permeates Meta Platforms’ data centers but isn’t visible on earnings slides. For many years, the company…
Usually, it begins with a little thing. When you walk into an air-conditioned room, you feel a sudden chill that makes you instinctively pull your shoulders…