July 2025

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser […]

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb

A surprising new study has uncovered over 200 misfolded proteins in the brains of aging rats with cognitive decline, beyond

A cat named Pepper has once again helped scientists discover a new virus—this time a mysterious orthoreovirus found in a

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that caught my eye this week. First up, a bummer! NASA

If you’re an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but.

Centre for animal sentience to look into animal consciousness and the ethical use of AI in how we treat them

Nothing seems to be going well for OpenAI. After losing key researchers to Meta and delaying its open-source model, the