How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions

A new approach for testing multiple treatment combinations at once could help scientists develop drugs for cancer or genetic disorders.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
July 16, 2025 ~6 min

Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular vision in the brain

A first-of-its-kind study in mice shows neurons add and shed synapses at a frenzied pace during development to integrate visual signals from the two eyes.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
July 15, 2025 ~7 min


A bunch of exoplanets may be bigger than scientists’ thought

A new finding could change which distant worlds researchers consider potential harbors for extraterrestrial life.

UC Irvine • futurity
July 15, 2025 ~5 min

How do new genes get switched on?

"That's important not only for evolutionary biology but also for the study of diseases like cancer..."

Rockefeller University • futurity
July 15, 2025 ~7 min

How social media and news drive gun sales

"We found this complex, interwoven web of media and social media variables and how it influences people's decision to buy guns."

Amanda Head-Georgia State • futurity
July 15, 2025 ~5 min

Dinosaur wrist discovery could shake up views of flight’s evolution

New research opens the possibility that the evolution of flight in dinosaurs was "all in the wrist."

Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook • futurity
July 15, 2025 ~6 min

Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong, yet the British don’t

Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards.

Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University • conversation
July 15, 2025 ~8 min

Why the Sycamore Gap tree provoked such strong emotional reactions – a psychologist explains

The fall of the Sycamore Gap tree was more than a loss of natural beauty. It was, for many, a symbolic attack on permanence, on meaning, and on shared identity.

Samuel Fairlamb, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London • conversation
July 15, 2025 ~8 min


Many Texas communities are dangerously unprepared for floods − lack of funding plays a big role

There are ways the state could help these communities, as a team of disaster planning specialists explains.

Shannon Van Zandt, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
July 15, 2025 ~9 min

Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

Two geophysicists and an archaeologist teamed up to connect space weather 41,000 years ago to human behaviors that might have been in response – and show the value in cross-discipline teamwork.

Sanja Panovska, Research scientist, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences • conversation
July 15, 2025 ~8 min

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