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Political science Oct 19, 2026

Imagine a social media algorithm that prioritizes trust over outrage

Following Ukraine's recent drone strikes on Russian data centers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested there was "less hate, less division and fewer provocations" online because of fewer Kremlin-linked bot networks ...

Economics & Business Oct 18, 2026

Who's paying whom? The circular money machine behind the AI boom (or bubble)

Imagine a company that sells you equipment, invests money in your business and then rents back what you build with it. It's your supplier, your investor and your customer all at once.

Archaeology Oct 18, 2026

Early humans in America endured climate chaos—new research

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

Paleontology & Fossils Oct 18, 2026

Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it's at risk of disappearing

Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much smaller, more unassuming ...

Space Exploration Oct 18, 2026

Japan's MMX mission aims to swipe soil samples from Mars's moon Phobos

A Japanese space mission is about to launch towards Mars. But it will not land on the planet itself. Instead, the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission will focus on Phobos, the bigger of Mars's two small moons.

Archaeology Oct 17, 2026

World's oldest shipwreck discovered off coast of Turkey

A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey is the oldest shipwreck in the world, our team of archaeologists believes. There's little left of the ship itself, but based on clues from its cargo—including pottery vessels—a research ...

Earth Sciences Oct 17, 2026

What an ancient volcanic eruption teaches us about resilience today

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, rebuild and recover?

Plants & Animals Oct 17, 2026

Australian scavengers don't just eat everything and slink away. They approach a carcass like a buffet

When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much as possible and slinking away.

Environment Oct 17, 2026

The ambiguous costs of climate change

As human activity has increased temperatures globally, determining the costs directly incurred by climate change is challenging. The effects of climate change on extreme weather events—such as hurricanes and heat waves—can ...

Nanophysics Oct 17, 2026

Electrical sliding switches graphene between magnetic states

In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between ...

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