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AI Reasoning Models Are Outperforming Doctors on Messy Real-World Cases
A new study finds AI reasoning models outperform human physicians on real-world clinical data, and the ripple effects on medical training may be profound.
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A Blood Test for Depression Could Reshape How We Catch Mental Illness Early
A blood test tracking immune cell aging could detect depression before symptoms surface, but the ethical infrastructure may not be ready for it.
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WHO Nations Punt on Pandemic Pathogen Sharing, Buying Time but Not Solutions
WHO member states agreed to extend talks on pathogen sharing, but the delay masks a structural standoff that could quietly fragment global disease surveillance.
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A Chinese Fossil Bed Is Rewriting What We Know About the Cambrian Explosion
A fossil bed in southern China has yielded dozens of new Cambrian species, and the ecological complexity it reveals is reshaping evolutionary biology.
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Smart Water Bottles and Cash Couldn't Stop Kidney Stones From Coming Back
A landmark trial gave kidney stone patients smart bottles, coaching, and cash to drink more water. The stones came back anyway, and the reasons why matter.
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30 Apr 2026
Australia Eliminates Trachoma, but the Real Story Is How Long It Took
Australia has become the 30th country in the world to receive World Health Organization validation for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem, a milest
30 Apr 2026
Why Your Afternoon Nap Might Be a Warning Sign, Not Just a Habit
There is something almost counterintuitive about the idea that rest could signal danger. Sleep, after all, is restorative. Yet a growing body of research is com
29 Apr 2026
The Math Heresy That Rejects Infinity Is Starting to Look Prescient
Most of us learn to accept infinity somewhere around middle school, tucked between fractions and the Pythagorean theorem, as though it were just another tool in
29 Apr 2026
The Axiom That Broke Mathematics Apart Before Putting It Back Together
Set theory sits so quietly beneath modern mathematics that most working mathematicians never think about it. Like plumbing behind a wall, it is simply assumed t
29 Apr 2026
Hepatitis Is Killing 1.34 Million People a Year. The 2030 Deadline Is Slipping.
The numbers are stubborn. Despite years of coordinated global effort, viral hepatitis killed 1.34 million people in 2024, according to a new World Health Organi
29 Apr 2026
A Popular Anti-Aging Drug Combo Damages Mouse Brains, Raising Human Safety Alarms
The promise of senolytics has always carried a certain seductive logic: clear out the body's worn-out, zombie-like cells, and the tissues around them might beha
29 Apr 2026
Obesity Rewires the Immune System in Ways That Outlast the Weight Itself
The assumption has long been that losing weight fixes the damage obesity does to the body. Shed the pounds, restore the metabolic markers, and the biological sl
28 Apr 2026
WHO's Pandemic War Game Reveals How Fragile Global Health Coordination Really Is
When a fictional bacterium began spreading across the world in a simulation room last week, 600 health emergency experts from 26 countries had to make decisions
28 Apr 2026
Physicists Keep Finding New Forms of Ice, and the Count Is Far From Final
Water is the most studied molecule in science, and yet it keeps surprising us. Researchers have now identified what appear to be the most structurally complex f
25 Apr 2026
WHO Clears First Malaria Treatment Designed for Newborns, Closing a Deadly Gap
For decades, one of the quietest tragedies in global health has been hiding in plain sight: newborns and young infants with malaria had no treatment formulated
