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Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that...
Technology
Software
This discovery could let bones benefit from exercise without moving
Researchers have discovered a biological switch that explains why movement keeps bones strong. The protein senses physical activity and pushes bone marrow stem cells to...
Biology
Software
Meet the mysterious electrides
For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some...
Climate & Environment
Technology
Meet the mysterious electrides
For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some...
Climate & Environment
Technology
Biomass could play a key role in Canada’s transition to a carbon-neutral economy
Record forest fires, under-utilized agricultural residues like straw and husks and struggling sawmills have left Canada with an abundance of undervalued biomass. If carefully and...
Climate & Environment
Energy
Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) overtook standard petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025, according to new figures released by...
Climate & Environment
Energy
STAT+: New startup to develop a GLP-1 drug for addiction
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. A new...
Biotechnology
Medicine & Health
ICE agents' role in Milan-Cortina Olympics sparks criticism in Italy
Citing images of ICE agents that have dominated coverage of unrest in Minneapolis, Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in...
Scottish vikings march through the streets for Up Helly Aa festivities
Hundreds of vikings in Lerwick celebrated Up Helly Aa with a torchlit procession, ending with the ceremonial burning of a replica longship.
From Pluto to Ceres: A dwarf planet word search
Hunt for the names of mysterious dwarf planets, most of which orbit on the fringes of our solar system
Energy
Space & Astronomy
Afcon drama: what went wrong and what went right at the continent’s biggest football cup in Morocco
The 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, hosted by Morocco, produced thrills and several story lines, some good and others not so good....
Biology
Software
Attacks on Nigeria’s energy systems weaken the country – research unpacks costs, risks and ways forward
Energy systems are coming under attack globally because disrupting power or fuel supplies offers strategic, economic or political leverage. This can be in local conflicts...
Climate & Environment
Economics
Donkeys are a common sight in northern Namibia – what colonial history has to do with it
Donkeys are an unassuming yet ubiquitous presence in northern Namibia. They traverse sandy village roads, pull carts stacked with firewood, and graze freely along the...
Economics
Engineering
South Africa’s new immigration policy takes a digital direction – will it succeed?
South Africa has a new draft white paper on immigration, citizenship and refugees. This, the fourth in three decades, represents a step change from the...
Biology
Technology
This guy fed years of Apple Watch health data to ChatGPT — with disastrous results
A tech columnist finds the Apple Health ChatGPT integration raises major red flags after feeding the AI bot a decade of Apple Watch data. (via...
Artificial Intelligence
Apple & Mac
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Roche obesity drug, a clash over 340B claims data, and more
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are just fine, thank you, despite the frigid temperature and cold winds wafting across the Pharmalot campus,...
Medicine & Health
Technology
Red Sea Rivalries Risk Unraveling the Horn of Africa
If Sudan’s civil war spreads to Ethiopia, it will be a humanitarian and strategic disaster.
Engineering
As data from space spikes, an innovative ground station company seeks to cash in
A company that seeks to disrupt the way in which data from space is received and transmitted has found some key investors and customers. On...
Space & Astronomy
Technology
Mahmood defends rollout of facial recognition to all police forces
Civil liberties campaigners are among those to raise concerns over the increase in live facial recognition vans.
Engineering
Psychology
Scientists may have been wrong about what causes asthma
Asthma may not be driven by the molecules scientists have blamed for decades. Researchers have identified “pseudo leukotrienes,” inflammation-triggering compounds formed by uncontrolled free-radical reactions...
Chemistry
Doctor Says What Border Patrol Agents Did After Shooting Alex Pretti Was Sickening
A doctor who witnessed the brutal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents says that the agents didn’t even bother trying to save the...
Medicine & Health
Engineering
What’s a false memory? Psychologists explain how your brain can lie.
T-shirt tycoons Fruit of the Loom are both makers of functional, printable T-shirts and unintentional originators of a long-standing piece of memory misinformation. Fruit of...
Biology
Neuroscience
Syphilis soars among pregnant people
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. After reading Megan’s story below...
Medicine & Health