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You’re probably eating enough protein, but maybe not the right mix
Protein is having a moment. But even if most people are eating enough protein, studies suggest they may not be eating the right mix.
Brain scans reveal where taste and smell become flavor
The findings show the insula fuses taste and certain smells into the sensation of flavor.
Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen
The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.
Chemistry that works like Hermione’s magic handbag wins a 2025 chemistry Nobel
Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks, structures that can collect water from air, capture CO₂ and more.
Why Breakthrough Starshot Has Faded Away
Despite the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot pledge, public accounting shows less than $10 million spending. Philip Lubin (UC Santa Barbara, laser propulsion) received ~$200,000 over eight years. This was less than his NASA grants for similar work. There is an estimate of 30 contracts totaling $4.5 million. Scientists viewed this as a kickstart. Breakthrough’s name ... Read more
SpaceX Will Have Regular Commercial Cargo Missions to Moon 2028 and Mars 2030
SpaceX has announced regular commercial cargo missions to the Moon starting in 2028 and to Mars in 2030. They will charge $100 million per ton. SpaceX is going to try to get refueling and launches of the SpaceX Starship developed so that they can send an unmanned test mission in 2026. This test mission will ... Read more
Kalshi Is a Profitable Prediction Market That Could Enable New Futures Finance Instruments
Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has ... Read more
US September 2025 Had an All Time High 11.8% Battery Electric of All New Vehicles
New light-vehicle sales in September 2025 reached a SAAR of 16.4 million units, up 3.5% year over year. EV tax credits expired on September 30. Battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales hit an all-time high in market share and accounted for 11.8% of all new vehicles sold. US light vehicles sales were about 1.25 million in ... Read more
What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology
A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.