
Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up?
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence
NASA’s 2028 moonshot may be delayed because of lack of space suits, watchdog report warns
Meet Bruce, the parrot with a broken beak that he wields as a weapon
Here’s what happens when you give salmon cocaine
Today’s Spellements

Are expensive binoculars really worth it?
Risk of ‘megaquake’ in Japan higher after powerful earthquake strikes
Trump’s order on psychedelics could have far-reaching science consequences
Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to moving in microgravity, new study finds

The hidden cause of heart disease is inflammation
How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics
Space hotels are coming soon
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

Can peanut allergies be cured?
How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
These cancers were beyond treatment—but might not be anymore
The dinosaurs at your window: How birds survived the asteroid that killed all other dinosaurs
The fans who went from collecting Pokémon to studying bugs and fossils
Artemis proves NASA can return to the moon. Now comes the hard question: Why?
Alexis Hall talks space whales, AI and reinventing a classic

NASA’s 2028 moonshot may be delayed because of lack of space suits, watchdog report warns
NASA needs new space suits to land astronauts on the moon by 2028, but development is behind and in danger of slipping further, according to a report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General

What is Mythos, Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, and how worried should we be?
The company says Mythos is too dangerous to release publicly. Cybersecurity experts agree the model's capabilities matter, but not all of them are buying the most alarming claims

DARPA’s AI is built to call BS on wild weapons claims
The SciFy program tests whether adversaries’ most outlandish scientific claims add up or fall apart

Here’s what happens when you give salmon cocaine
It turns out that salmon exposed to cocaine through water pollution do a lot of swimming—which may not be a good thing

Master of chaos wins $3-million math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations
For decades, mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

Mathematicians created an ‘impossible’ shape that shouldn’t exist
Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape