A developing El Nino is expected to strengthen through 2026, but the deeper concern is not the Pacific cycle itself. Scientists are asking what happens when a familiar climate pattern collides with a planet already carrying record levels of heat.
Ancient DNA research is challenging one of the deepest assumptions about human history: that civilisation changed culture but left biology largely untouched. A major 2026 Nature study suggests the Bronze Age may have altered selection pressures on immunity, metabolism, behaviour and traits now linked to cognition, as humans adapted to dense, hierarchical and disease ridden societies.
Science / China / Technology
This is no longer a simple race to the moon. It is a contest between two political and industrial systems over who can build the transport, power, logistics, and diplomatic architecture that will shape the next frontier.
Technology / Science / The Future
China’s 2021 notification to the United Nations about near-misses involving Starlink satellites prompted diplomatic exchange but no enforcement action. Separately, astronomers have raised growing concerns about Starlink’s impact on the night sky through orbital light pollution. Together, the two disputes expose a widening gap between rapidly expanding private satellite networks and a space law framework built for a quieter age.
Cancer neuroscience shows that tumours do not just sit in the body. They recruit nerves, form synapses, steal mitochondria and tap into the stress system to grow and spread. Some of the most promising ways to interfere with that wiring involve cheap drugs we already have. The science is glamorous. The problem is simple. No one can make enough money from the obvious experiments.
A new daily pill called orforglipron promises to do for obesity and type two diabetes what Ozempic and Wegovy could never quite manage: escape the clinic and land in the bathroom cabinet. Trial data show close to ten per cent weight loss in people with diabetes and more in others, but also a harsher truth. This is not a cure. It is a lifelong metabolic lease.
When the internet collapses, how will you reconnect? A guide to emergency communication, radio networks, and rebuilding digital life from zero
For decades, sunlight has been cast as the enemy—something to block, screen, or fear. Yet beneath the warnings lies a quieter truth: our bodies are wired to thrive on light, and pills alone cannot replace it. As the epidemic of high blood pressure silently claims lives from London to Lagos, the case for measured, deliberate […]