WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
Tangles of tau protein make a mess of brain cells. Daniel Ferreira-Leites Ciccarino/Canva – By Mike McRae 2026 Oct 13 – A hallmark tangle of proteins present in the brains of people with dementia may have a watery weakness. – Scientists at Northwestern University …
An overlooked immune cell could sniff out an elusive form of lung cancer cell. Science Photo Library – 2026 Oct 14 – An overlooked population of immune cells could offer a new way to attack one of the deadliest forms of lung cancer. – …
Will the Trump administration send armed federal officials to the polls on Election Day? Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images – By Danielle Friedman, Legal Director, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison Published: 2026 Oct 08 – After high-level Trump administration officials said …
Financial losses caused by AI fraud are skyrocketing, especially among adults over 60. Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash – By Pawan Jain, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Michigan Flint Published: 2026 Sep 14 – The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s …
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University Published: 2026 Oct 06 – Conflicting information about the death of a lab worker at a Russian plague research institute has …
Chronic wounds, like diabetic foot ulcers, can take ages to heal and risk getting infected. Towfiqu Barbhuiya / Pexels – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2026 Oct 07 – Researchers have found that vanillin, the compound found in vanilla pods, is not only an aromatic flavoring agent …
Some molecules have ‘mirror images,’ and while one form can be helpful, the other can be harmful. BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images – By Sajish Mathew, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Published: 2026 Oct 07 – The effects a drug …
A cube of natural uranium from the German nuclear project. John T. Consoli, University of Maryland College Park, MD. – By Mike McRae 2026 Oct 06 – In the final weeks of the Second World War, a team of Germany’s most gifted scientists threw …
Oura started it all in 2015. https://ouraring.com/blog/history-of-oura(Oura) – By Howard Armitage 2026 Oct 02 – There was a time when intelligent rings were what your level-three wizard wore in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Now Amazon will sell you one for less than a …
Women are taking a more active role in jihadi organizations. Syria Deeply/https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/syria – By Sara Harmouch, Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University Published: 2026 Oct 01 – Khadra Essa, a Somali-born Dutch citizen operating in Syria under the name Umm Qaqa al-Somali, is …
