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Psychology

When Cooperation Gets Complicated

Why do we help others when it costs us something? For decades, scientists answered this with a simple formula: altruism evolves when the benefit to others, weighted by relatedness, is greater than the cost to the helper. This neat rule, called Hamilton’s rule, became one of biology’s most famous equations. But new work shows the […]

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Biology

What Happens When Elephants Face Stress

Across Asia, elephants are losing ground. Since the 1700s, farming and cities have eaten away 64% of their habitat. But here’s the twist: elephants aren’t just changing where they walk or what they eat: they’re changing inside. New research shows their bodies respond in striking ways to human-altered landscapes. When the Forest Turns Into Fields […]

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News

Next Week in Science, September 19, 2025

I don’t know, just dialing this one in. I really like this recent article we wrote about drumming. It’s a fun thing to learn about different rhythms and grooves. Here’s what’s in the research. And here’s what’s in the news. Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity The study uses the IUCN’s […]

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Biology

How Food Fortification Could Improve Children’s Health

Every year, millions of children in India face preventable blindness, weak bones, and even early death—not because medicine doesn’t exist, but because key vitamins are missing from their diets. A new study suggests that a surprisingly simple change, fortifying everyday oil and milk, could save over a million healthy years of life. The Everyday Problem […]

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Environment

Cutting Emissions Could Save 14,000 Lives a Year

Carbon credits are back in the news, thanks to the role they play in this amazing reporting by Pablo Torre. The story itself is crazy, and the role carbon offsets play is only tangential. Yet, it got my thinking about the recent research on this topic. A third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come […]

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Biology

Can Drum Machines Sound Human?

So I’m into drummers. I’ve got my favorites. One who kind of flies under the radar is Jeff Porcaro, the drummer for Toto, but an extremely accomplished session musician. As Wikipedia quotes, his drumming pretty much defined late-70s and 80s pop. In 1982, Michael McDonald released I Keep Forgettin’. The track is smooth, soulful, and […]

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AI

How Sci-LLMs Could Supercharge Discovery

A decade ago, the idea of a computer designing new materials, predicting drug interactions, or even writing publishable scientific papers sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s edging toward science fact. Researchers are building scientific large language models (Sci-LLMs). These are AI systems trained not just on casual text from the internet, but on the raw […]

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News

Next Week in Science, September 12, 2025

We’ve had a bunch of new subs recently, so welcome! Don’t hesitate to reach out to make sure we are covering the topics that are important to you personally and professionally! Here’s what’s rising in the literature. And a couple of things across the news The 7 best filtered shower heads for healthier skin and […]

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Physics

The Myth: “The Towers Shouldn’t Have Collapsed”

In the days after September 11, 2001, one question spread almost as fast as the news footage itself: How could two skyscrapers, designed to withstand the impact of an airplane, simply fall? For many, it seemed unthinkable. The Twin Towers were built to be strong. Some took the collapse as proof that something didn’t add […]

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Biology

Can Worms Remember the Taste of Salt?

Here’s a fact to stop you mid-sip of your sports drink: a creature smaller than a sesame seed can remember the exact salt concentration it grew up in, and use that memory to navigate the world like a microscopic GPS. Meet Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans for short. With only 302 neurons in its entire […]

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