A woman in her late eighties once said it like this, almost as an aside: "There's no one left who remembers me as a girl." She had outlived two husbands, a sister, the neighbours from the street she grew up on.
Axolotls regrow limbs, heart tissue, spinal cord and brain without forming scars. From Vienna's Hand2 discovery to a 2026 PNAS paper on the SP8 gene, here's why labs worldwide keep the Mexican salamander alive.
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc.
A Georgia Tech resting-state brain imaging study complicates the usual workplace story about mind-wandering, creativity, and visible focus.
A McKinsey survey gap suggests workplace AI may be spreading through everyday employee habits faster than leadership dashboards can see.
The standard account of how habits form goes something like this: repetition gradually reduces the cognitive effort a behaviour requires.
Correction, 3 October 2026: The earlier headline conflated a foundation having no shareholders with its subsidiary having no owner or shareholders.
On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student posted a Usenet message apologising that his hobby operating system would "never be big and professional." The kernel he attached now runs roughly 90 percent of the world's cloud servers and every Android phone on Earth.
People look for a tell.
Before SpaceX existed, Elon Musk flew to Moscow in 2001 to buy a refurbished Russian ICBM for a mission called Mars Oasis — a small robotic greenhouse meant to grow the first plants on another planet and shame the public back into caring about space. The greenhouse never flew, but the theory of change behind it became SpaceX.
Qatar is sending empty LNG carriers back through the Strait of Hormuz, and the fact that this counts as news tells you everything about how much the global gas market has been holding its breath for the past three weeks.
The mechanism was studied from 1902 onward. Later X-ray work and modern imaging clarified the functions of its surviving gears and inscriptions.
