A GLP-1 injector sits on a table top.

Ozempic may not be the cure-all the world wants it to be

Experts express various levels of optimism about new applications for GLP-1 drugs, and some have concerns about the motivations behind the push to find new uses
 Health
• July 9, 2025
An artist's rendition of how AI looks.

AI can’t learn forever

 Tech
• July 8, 2025

A newly-identified problem in deep learning models indicates that they can’t continually learn without assistance from humans

‘Nobody likes putting rocks on the beach’

 Environment
• July 8, 2025

As erosion batters the Great Lake shoreline, coastal communities face hard choices

Someone conducts chemistry research.

Should astronauts worry about their microbiomes in space?

 Space, Physics, and Math
• June 25, 2025

Preliminary research suggests gut health should be a concern during spaceflight

A leafcutter ant carries its leaf fragment across the soil.

Ant agriculture holds secrets for human sustainability

 Environment
• May 22, 2025

You’ve heard of ant farms — now meet the ant farmers

A farmer in China embraces tradition to weather climate calamities

 Environment
• May 22, 2025

Older farming techniques could help growers survive punishing droughts and floods

The paper on a type-writer reads "addiction recovery."

America is missing out on a crucial opportunity to contain opioid overdose deaths

 Health
• May 20, 2025

Implementing opioid treatment In jails could help combat the crisis

AI music is more common – and harder to catch – than ever

 Tech
• May 19, 2025

As text-to-music generators proliferate, detection tools are trying to catch up

New evidence emerges that memory is finite

 Health
• May 9, 2025

Strong memories might prevent weaker memories from forming, a new study in mice suggests.

Cows are a big part of the climate problem — but can be part of the solution, too

 Environment
• April 9, 2025

Researchers are working on innovative ways to reduce methane emissions from livestock

a male violinist in a black t-shirt is playing a violin

How does emotional music affect musicians?

 Audio
• April 3, 2025

Violinists play less smoothly when they're performing emotional pieces, according to new research. A professional violinist disagrees.

The A.hitleri population has dwindled. Nazi fanatics like to collect them because of their name. [Credit: Michael Munich | CC BY-SA 3.0]

It’s hard to name a species — and even harder to rename one

 Environment
• March 12, 2025

A beetle named after Hitler is just one of many names that haven’t aged well. Here’s how the species-naming process works

A clay tablet covered in cuneiform writing

Tracing cognition from clay stamps to cuneiform and beyond

 Social Science
• March 6, 2025

What the formation of writing can tell us about human cognition

tsavo man-eating lions

How do researchers study DNA that is more than 1,000 years old?

 Life Science
• March 5, 2025

In the 2000s, an exhibit of the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo from Kenya that chowed down on 35 construction workers in the late 1890s was revived at Chicago’s Field […]

A world map shows a red sea, indicating rising ocean temperatures, but there is a cold blob just south of Greenland.

What is the ‘cold blob’ in the North Atlantic?

 Environment
• February 26, 2025

More than just blue dots in a sea of red, cold areas on maps of sea surface temperatures suggest climate change is shifting ocean currents, and some climate experts are worried

Photo by James Gathany, USCDCP on Pixnio

After the hurricane came more mosquitoes

 Environment
• February 17, 2025

Should we worry about the rise of mosquitoes in the aftermath of a hurricane?

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