The latest scientific discoveries, scored.

Ancient DNA suggests Germanic may have reached Scandinavia some 800 years later than assumed

A new X-ray method maps how collagen fibrils and fibres share load inside intact rat spinal discs

Single-nucleus maps of 287 muscle biopsies match almost 3,500 trait signals to regulatory variants

In 1.2 million immune cells, a single-cell model found 48.8% more eGenes than a standard pooled pipeline

Open medical AI models built on Gemma 3 beat their general-purpose base across medical images and text

Asked to rate over 4,400 AI-generated ideas, 100-plus group leaders called a quarter interesting

Children, adults and AI agents in a Minecraft-like game seem to seek novelty first, then control

Repeated stretches of DNA shape gene activity immune cell type by cell type, across 1,925 people

A language-model system simulating a panel of physicians correctly diagnosed 83.2% of NEJM case-conference cases in a benchmark, against 36.1% for generalist physicians.

A fine-mapping method holds up better than existing tools when the reference panel does not match the study

A map of 12 glioblastomas finds their cells on one path, from development-like states to injury and low oxygen

Mice that only watched fights later fought more like experienced fighters, with shared brain changes

In mice, astrocytes in an early bulbous state release a signal microglia need to eat the synapses beside them

Coral bacteria make testosterone and progesterone, and giving corals either one shifts their immune genes

Separately knocking down 18 autism genes in lab-grown neural cells lowered many of the same other autism genes

A laser search for axions at DESY saw none, setting a limit more than 20 times tighter than similar experiments

In four patients, single magnetic pulses to the prefrontal cortex changed firing in 46% of recorded neurons

The first complete male fruit fly nervous system, brain and nerve cord, at synaptic resolution

State predicts how cells' gene expression responds to perturbation, and flags strong perturbations in cellular contexts where it saw none in training.

Struts of many sizes let metamaterials combine direction-tunable stiffness with evenly spread deformation

Two monkey brain areas format the same signals differently, and stimulating each changed choices differently