February 2026

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was instructing every federal agency to “immediately cease” use of Anthropic’s AI […]

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that exposed prehistoric hookups, marched toward death, feasted on

In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be driving employees

Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk

Scientists at Texas A&M are turning an everyday pick-me-up into a high-tech medical switch. By combining caffeine with CRISPR gene

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free,

Scientists have built a massive cellular atlas showing how aging reshapes the body across 21 organs. Studying nearly 7 million