NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Category Archives: Research
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rotavirus Entry’ – Visualizing how nonenveloped viruses cross cell membranes…
China maps the deep scars of its geological past
Early results from the $1 billion SinoProbe II project hint at how continental fragments assemble and evolve
Scientists question U.S. Forest Service’s rationale for rescinding ‘roadless rule’
Trump administration officials argue the change is necessary to reduce wildfire risk in national forests
Clues to immune havoc in the brain
Study in mice strengthens T cells’ ties to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s
Platinum chemotherapy ages the liver
Platinum-based drugs cause mutations and liver aging in children treated for cancer
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
How scientists unraveled the causes of the devastating flood in Tibet and Nepal
Global cooperation revealed a huge landslide likely initiated the cascade of events
Supermale fish become new tactic for vanquishing invaders
Hatchery-raised trout with double Y chromosomes can eradicate invasive populations
Fearing seal die-off from bird flu, Australia moves to evacuate sub-Antarctic research station
Watching pups’ deaths could affect the mental health of staff, officials say
Brain stimulation takes aim at improving women’s health
Trials of noninvasive technologies enroll pregnant and postpartum women
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…
How kids feel about AI, in their own words
Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.
Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis
Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.
What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 20, 2026
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Sulfur On Mars’ – The Curiosity rover finds unexpected deposits….
Powers of persuasion
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people’s minds. What gives them an edge?
Touch and pain shape what brain imaging sees
Sensory inputs influence different blood vessel networks, affecting the precision of brain scans
China mission aims to probe the Moon’s hidden water
Chang’e-7 will send a hopping craft into a polar crater to directly sample lunar ice
Arson attack jolts Italy’s bid to host the Einstein Telescope
Two scientists’ cars burned at proposed Sardinian site for the next-generation gravitational-wave observatory
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026
The battle for the night sky
SpaceX and other companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Could orbit run out of room?
What really happened on Easter Island?
For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale
How NASA turned a spy satellite into its new dark energy telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter
Why your brain turns life into stories
Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 13, 2026
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Windows Into The Past’ – Fossilized shark denticles provide a view of preexploitation abundance.
Planned satellite constellations risk runaway debris
Modeling suggests infamous “Kessler syndrome” would make the swarms unsustainable
Researchers struggle to improve nonopioid pain drugs
Studies probe the limits of new sodium channel blockers
Physicists find strong evidence for elusive ‘glueball’
Long-sought particle, made of force-carrying gluons, represents a new type of matter
Fight over Colorado River water threatens ecosystems
After a record-low snowpack, federal authorities canceled dam releases for managing fish and sandbars
Tau can wreak havoc in brain cells’ energy factories
Study of mitochondria suggests new treatment strategy for Alzheimer’s and other diseases
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 6, 2026
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Let Them Roam’ – Understanding Bison population structure can aid restoration.
Genes of an icon
In the DNA of bison, scientists find clues to the animals’ past—and keys to safeguarding their future
Listening to storms as they shake Earth
A network of seismometers measured atmospheric turbulence during Hurricane Isaac’s landfall
What triggered the atmosphere’s great oxygen surge?
Global ice or ocean changes may explain a mysterious lag in the gas’ rise
NASA’s PUNCH punches up space weather forecasts
Satellite quartet demonstrates record-breaking ability to predict solar explosions’ arrivals at Earth
SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– JULY 30, 2026 PREVIEW
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Biotic Bridge’ – Mexican “holding pen” shaped asymmetrical mammal migrations….
A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange
For millions of years after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, South America was disconnected from other landforms, a time period that has been referred to as its “splendid isolation.” This isolation allowed for the evolution of mammals with distinctive features, including xenarthrans, sprassodont carnivores, and notoungulates. The formation of the Panamanian land bridge facilitated connection of North and South American faunas, with a bias from north to south. Tseng et al. looked at fossils from low latitudes in México and found that northern mammals accumulated in the region before the connection (see the Perspective by McGuire and Williams). This allowed for more rapid dispersal south and further supports that the land bridge first formed during the Pliocene rather than the Miocene.
How black holes get hitched
Analyses of hundreds of collisions find black holes pair up in at least three ways
AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
Ancient DNA shows how smallpox got to the Americas
“ Landmark” paper finds European contact introduced the disease
When mammals crossed between continents
The Great American Biotic Interchange informs the dynamics of modern species invasions
SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– JULY 23, 2026 PREVIEW
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Strands of DNA-like thread coil, loop, and spill upward, evoking the genome’s dynamic three-dimensional architecture within the nucleus of a living cell.
Ebola’s rapid spread spurs new drug and vaccine trials
Pioneering studies are underway amid difficult conditions to address Bundibugyo’s threat
Contagious fish cancer overruns New England lake
Genetic studies reveal rare example of identical transmissible tumors
Climate scientists sharpen tools for linking global warming to extreme weather
National Academies report says more rigorous results will boost confidence in fast-growing field
Oldest known Mars rock offers glimpse of planet’s watery youth
Teghaza meteorite hints at surprisingly Earth-like crust and shows Mars was already losing its water 4.1 billion years ago
