Cookies made from plastic are real: engineered baker’s yeast turns old bottles and corn stalks into protein. How it works, and why nobody has tasted one yet.
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Where Have All the Wasps Gone? The Insect Nobody Missed Until Now
Where have all the wasps gone? Britain’s wasps went quiet in summer 2026. What the weather did to the nests, and the hidden work wasps do that we never see.
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Best Wordle Strategy: Guess to Learn, Not to Be Right
The best Wordle strategy won 99% of games in a 2026 study. The trick: stop guessing the word you think is right and guess the one that teaches you the most.
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Franklin Expedition DNA: The Sailor in the Wrong Uniform
Franklin expedition DNA named the sailor found in 1859 in the wrong coat. He carried a wallet of papers and one misspelled line about death. Here is the story.
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The Earliest Evidence of Drug Use Is 25,000 Years Old. It May Have Started With a Toothache.
The earliest evidence of drug use is in 25,000-year-old teeth from Sulawesi. Researchers think it began as toothache relief that slowly made the pain worse.
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NASA’s Swift Telescope Is Falling. Its Team Switched It Back On Anyway.
The Swift telescope will fall from orbit within months. Its team switched the instruments back on anyway, knowing it brings the end closer. Here is why.
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Have We Found Alien Life? What the Experts Actually Said
Have we found alien life? After the 2025 K2-18b and Mars rock claims, hundreds of astrobiologists were polled. The answers were not what the headlines implied.
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Is the Universe Slowing Down? Dark Energy and Isaiah 40
Is the universe slowing down? A 2026 study of over 1,700 supernovae has put dark energy on trial. Isaiah 40 explains why your faith never needed to pick a side.
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80% of Insect Species Live in the Tropics. “Parachute Science” Is Why We Still Don’t Know Them — and in Bangladesh, the Records Were Already on Facebook.
Parachute science leaves tropical insects unstudied by the people living among them. In Bangladesh, nearly every missing butterfly record was on Facebook.
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A Zebrafish Regrows a Cut Spinal Cord. We Build a Wall Instead.
Spinal cord regeneration works in zebrafish and fails in us. A 2026 study found the signal that decides which — and why blocking the swelling early backfires.