1+ hour ago  (639+ words) Scammers are already manipulating us with the voices of our loved ones, but another risk lurks in the data collected by voice command and search apps 10: 00 AM CDT on July 2, 2026 Voice-cloning scams like these are becoming more and more common....

17+ hour, 55+ min ago  (247+ words) Empowering patients to retake control of their back pain produced surprising results 5: 00 PM CDT on July 1, 2026 With so many of us spending hours hunched over a laptop or a smartphone, incidences of lower back pain have been on the rise....

21+ hour, 12+ min ago  (169+ words) Citizen scientists strike again 2: 00 PM CDT on July 1, 2026 "While some other genera in eupelmidae are specialized egg parasitoids, most species of Eupelmus attack larvae or pupae of other insects, and only very few are known to develop inside mantis oothecae,…...

22+ hour, 42+ min ago  (742+ words) Scientists want to use LLMs to model human emotions and study human mental health 12: 30 PM CDT on July 1, 2026 To their surprise, they were able to coax them into very specific emotional states like sadness or stress. Once they had induced…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (193+ words) Drugs in human waste may shape how disease spreads from rats to humans 9: 00 AM CDT on July 1, 2026 Chelsea Himsworth, an associate professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Canada, who didn't…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (159+ words) The atlatl is handy enough to re-invent across cultures 5: 30 PM CDT on June 30, 2026 But if atlatls weren't brought over from Europe, where did these Stone Age hunters get them?" According to the researchers, they re-discovered the technology independently in the…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (287+ words) Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer 2: 30 PM CDT on June 30, 2026 The famous saber-tooth cat that lived in North America beginning about 2 million years ago survived by ambushing prey such as camels and ground sloths…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (200+ words) Researchers built a cultured lung and gave it an asthma attack 1: 30 PM CDT on June 30, 2026 This mechanical component of asthma progression poses some challenges for scientists who want to study it. Animal models don't exactly mimic human organs, and you…...

2+ day, 12+ min ago  (911+ words) A conversation with a trash man turned sociologist about our dangerous waste problem and the heroics that hides it 11: 00 AM CDT on June 30, 2026 The garbageman is the Sisyphus of our consumer society, writes Simon Par-Poupart in his jaunty new memoir…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (740+ words) Marvelous maggots, biological warfare, AI survivalists, space myths, and more 9: 00 AM CDT on June 30, 2026 There's something about July. We're in the deep summer; in many parts of the world it's too hot to move. So, what better to do than…...