Bryan Roth had been hiking and scrambling for a while, with drop-offs evident around him, when his guides held out coveralls and pointed between two rocks. “We have to go in the hole,” one said. Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container…
Artist’s reconstruction of the pachycephalosaur Zavacephale rinpoche Masaya Hattori A dome-headed dinosaur found in Mongolia had a serious weapon on top of its skull, a mouth full of no-nonsense teeth and cartoon-like giant eye sockets. The new species, named Zavacephale rinpoche, lived about 108 million years ago in the early Cretaceous and is a member…
September 17, 2025 4 min read U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is in Chaos, Fired CDC Director Tells Senators Former CDC chief Susan Monarez testified that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., had demanded she rubber-stamp recommendations from his remade vaccine panel By Dan Vergano edited by Lauren J. Young Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images…
Steven Pinker argues that “cancel culture” is a form of censorship Jean-Christian Bourcart/Getty Images When Everyone Knows That Everyone KnowsSteven Pinker (Allen Lane (UK); Scribner (US) Out 23 September) Steven Pinker’s new book perfectly encapsulates what a contradictory figure he has become. Much of it is a clear, fascinating explanation of a major psychological phenomenon. But then…
Confusion over vaccine recommendations in the U.S. has hit a boiling point as the responsibility for handling them has spilled onto individual states. Regulators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have long provided trusted national guidance on who should get certain vaccines and when. But now reports…
Vitamin D supplements are recommended during the darker months in many countries Olga Pankova/Getty Images Taking one type of vitamin D supplement seems to cut the levels of another type that is more easily used by the body, which could affect our immune system. Our bodies create vitamin D when ultraviolet rays in sunlight convert…
September 17, 2025 4 min read Secrets of DeepSeek AI Model Revealed in Landmark Paper The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for $300,000 By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine DeepSeek says its R1 model did not learn by copying examples generated by…
Getty Images For Unsplash+ Living to 100. It is a milestone that, until recently, was so rare that hitting it would secure you newspaper inches and perhaps a segment on local radio. Today, it is an ambition well within reach for many of us. Last week, Japan celebrated a record number of centenarians – now…
A new drug may help people with high blood pressure that does not respond to existing medications. The results of a large clinical trial, published August 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that baxdrostat could offer an alternative for people with resistant hypertension — high blood pressure that stays elevated despite standard…
September 17, 2025 3 min read Chimpanzee Consumption of Boozy Fruit May Illuminate Roots of Humanity’s Love of Alcohol Wild chimps ingest the equivalent of multiple alcoholic beverages a day By Kate Wong edited by Jeanna Bryner A chimpanzee eats fruit in the rainforest of Kibale National Park in Uganda. When chimpanzees eat ripe figs…
