How pond algae led to a Nobel prize and a new way to study the brain

Scientists who worked out how to control brain cells with light have won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Interesting Engineering

How electrophoretic e-ink displays create images without a backlight

How do e-ink displays work? Here’s how charged pigment particles, electric fields and bistability turn electronic screens ...
Wall Street Journal

We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It’s Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It.

Corporate restructurings and AI use have automated away many of the repetitive tasks junior staffers used to do, like drafting reports or pulling data into spreadsheets. That’s freeing them from a lot ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Trio of Scientists Wins Medicine Nobel for a Method to Turn Nerve Cells On and Off With Light, Helping to Unravel the Brain’s Mysteries

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel received the 2026 award for their contributions to a revolutionary technique ...
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Explaining the process of neuronal electrical signaling

Action potential is the electrical signal that lets neurons communicate, and this concise neuroscience lesson breaks down how ...
Wall Street Journal

DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kate Odell, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Photo: Pamela Smith/David Goldman/Vladimir Voronin/AP Early on Jan. 23, 2025, I left a Washington ...
Wired

The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light

The Karolinska Institute awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine to researchers Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the ...
Kotaku

It Works: Electronics Repair Simulator

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from It Works: Electronics Repair Simulator Electronics Repair Simulator lets players operate their own electronics workshop where they diagnose and fix various ...
Health.com

How Long It Takes To Rebuild Muscle After a Gym Break

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Muscle memory helps regain strength quickly after a gym ...
BIOENGINEER

How Bacteria Wire Themselves to Electrodes: The Electron Transfer Secrets Powering Microbial Fuel Cells

A new review details how bacteria transfer electrons to electrodes through nanowires, cytochromes and chemical mediators, the ...
Wired

Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled ...