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New York City's congestion pricing plan successfully reduced pollution and traffic in Manhattan – 8 weeks after the implementation, traffic volumes declined by 10%…

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

Regular physical activity in midlife cuts risk of early death

Large collaborative study finds low analytical robustness in the social and behavioral sciences, with only 34% of reanalyses yielding the same results as the original reports.

These advanced solar cells have an antique source: old bullets

Randomized placebo-controlled pilot trial finds rice bran–derived compound improves quality-of-life scores in cancer patients during active treatment

Objectively measured physical activity following lumbar decompression surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis

Beavers can turn rivers into powerful carbon sinks, storing up to ten times more carbon than unmodified streams

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output…

Physicists have made an ultra-powerful magnet that fits in the palm of a hand and can produce a magnetic field that is more than 800,000 times stronger than Earth’s.

Current climate models rely on unproven tech because they refuse to question economic growth

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years

The 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave triggered "cascading" ecological disasters, killing 92% of mussels and 56% of sea ducks

AI model detects early-stage breast cancer with ~94% accuracy, a 2026 Nature Medicine study reports

Genetic predisposition to coffee consumption and the association with the early risk of atherosclerosis

Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination has led to generation of widespread immunity against related sarbecoviruses, creating an immunological barrier to novel sarbecovirus emergence in humans

Partial cellular reprogramming restores youthful gene activity in aged cells

Warming coastal waters are the "primary driver" of massive, large-scale humid heat waves

Climate change could cause ~123 million additional malaria cases in Africa by 2050

Satellite radar reveals that Alaska’s glaciers melt for three additional weeks for every 1°C of summer warming

Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming

A daily multivitamin slows the ticking of epigenetic clocks

Lab-grown oesophagus restores pigs’ ability to swallow

Well-being is linked to income. In 80% of 109 countries, subjective well-being is more strongly associated with within-nation rank of income

Antimatter is thought to be the most expensive substance on Earth — it would cost trillions of dollars to make a gram

Mosquitoes that have been designed to carry vaccines in their saliva have been used to inoculate bats against the rabies and Nipah viruses

Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice

Brain scans reveal how ketamine quickly lifts severe depression

Butyrate extends health and lifespan in mice with mitochondrial deficiency

Analyses of biobank data show that human variation such as age, sex and genetics is associated with viral abundance and supports a causal link between abundance of Epstein–Barr virus and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

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