Physical/Mental Wellness
The AI That Designed a Vaccine — And What It Actually Means
The first AI-designed vaccine has been tested in humans — and it worked. The milestone isn't the vaccine itself, which is years from deployment. It's that the method generalises: if...
The Remote Work Trap: What the Largest-Ever Study on WFH and Mental Health Actually Tells Us
Remote work is the largest uncontrolled experiment in behavioural science since the smartphone — and the data is now in. Workers are trading mental health for flexibility, and most don't...
The Teen Parenting Paradox: Three Stories That Shouldn't Fit Together — But Do
The iPhone suppressed teen pregnancy. Governments are now racing to ban the iPhone's ecosystem from teens. Nobody has reconciled these two facts.
Early Childhood Speech and Language Delays — Expert Guidance on the Most Common Developmental Delay
Every month a child with a speech or language delay waits for intervention is a month of neuroplasticity that will not come again — and for 1 in 8 children,...
Autism Is Not One Thing — And Now We Can See It in the Brain
A cross-species study published in Nature Neuroscience has identified two biologically distinct subtypes of autism — one driven by synaptic differences, the other by immune-related pathways. The finding turns decades...
The Gut-Brain Conversation That Begins Before Birth
A landmark study has found that epigenetic patterns at birth shape the infant gut microbiome — and that specific bacteria may protect against autism and ADHD. This is the first...
Processed meat and gastric cancer: the 30-gram threshold the EPIC cohort just hardened
The IARC's 2015 call on processed meat was right. What this week's EPIC cohort paper does is harden the dose — and quietly add a new question about white meat...
The brain at fifty: menopause cognition is not in your head, and the medicine knows it now
menopause-related cognitive symptoms have measurable structural brain correlates and a research-funding gap that has lasted decades; the medical conversation hasn't caught up, and women in their late forties and fifties...
Ketogenic therapy for anorexia: a 22-person signal that could matter more than its size suggests
A pilot this small is not a recommendation. But the mechanism it points at — neurometabolic dysfunction, treated by bypassing the broken metabolism rather than arguing with the patient about...
The world is now running an experiment on your kid: under-16 social media bans go live
A live population-scale intervention on adolescent mental health is being deployed before the evidence base on whether it works has been built. The next 18 months produce the data —...
Daraxonrasib: A Daily Pill That Doubles Survival in the World's Deadliest Cancer
Daraxonrasib is the most consequential pancreatic-cancer result of the modern oncology era and reframes RAS — long considered "undruggable" — as the new central battleground of solid-tumour therapy.
The 40-Hour Workweek Is Becoming Law in the World's Ninth-Largest Economy
Brazil's constitutional amendment to end the six-day workweek is the most consequential labour reform of 2026 — and it's part of a continental shift that is only accelerating.
The Cholesterol Edit — VERVE-102 and the One-Shot Future of Cardiovascular Medicine
The first credible clinical evidence that base editing can replace a lifetime of pills with a single infusion — and the most important cardiovascular data of the decade so far.
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