Dispatch · 9 Nov 2026 · 33 min read
The science of 2 to 8 November 2026, scored: 35 new results, led at 78 by a toxin tied to a deadly infant gut emergency and by ancient DNA on Germanic.
By The Frontier Desk
Read the pieceDispatch · 2 Nov 2026 · 26 min read
The science breakthroughs of 27 October to 1 November 2026, scored: 30 new results, led at 72 by an explainable AI for attributing paintings, then a global map of threats to freshwater species and a single-cell atlas of immune genes at 70.
Dispatch · 27 Oct 2026 · 23 min read
The science breakthroughs of 22-26 October 2026, scored: 24 new results, led at 71 by a cold-induced metabolite in worms and an Angelman syndrome mechanism in mice.
Dispatch · 21 Oct 2026 · 23 min read
The science breakthroughs of 15-21 October 2026, scored: 28 new results, led by a village-networks trial at 74 and two enzymes designed to cut proteins.
Dispatch · 14 Oct 2026 · 22 min read
The science breakthroughs of 8-14 October 2026, scored: 27 new results, led by biomedicine, with a genomics toolkit and a brain code for word meaning on top at 72.
Dispatch · 7 Oct 2026 · 22 min read
The science breakthroughs of 1-7 October 2026, scored: 29 new peer-reviewed results, led by biomedicine, with mitochondria across the tree of life on top at 74.
Guide · 5 Oct 2026 · 72 min read
How much published science holds up, from psychology to cancer biology to physics, why results fail, and how to judge whether a new breakthrough will last.
Dispatch · 30 Sept 2026 · 21 min read
44 peer-reviewed results joined Frontier's index from 21 to 30 September, led by neuroscience and biomedicine; an AI climate-risk framework tops it at 76.
Guide · 20 Sept 2026 · 29 min read
Inside WHOLISTIC, the Janelia method that films calcium signals in nearly every cell of a living zebrafish at once, and the body-wide circuits it revealed.
Dispatch · 20 Sept 2026 · 17 min read
34 new peer-reviewed breakthroughs hit Frontier's index this fortnight, led by biology, with a cryo-ET membrane tool topping the table at 80.
Guide · 20 Sept 2026 · 29 min read
TU Delft gave a 44 g drone rat-like whiskers to fly, map and find exits in pitch darkness, with no camera or LiDAR. Inside the 2026 tactile-flight result.
Guide · 20 Sept 2026 · 30 min read
Oshen's 1.2m C-Star PC13 became the first fully autonomous boat to cross the Atlantic, ending a 16-year Microtransat quest after 30-plus failed attempts.
Guide · 20 Sept 2026 · 29 min read
A deep-learning scan of 2 million seismic waveforms from 1990 to 2024 surfaced 174,929 faint echoes and six scattering bands at Earth's core-mantle boundary.
Guide · 20 Sept 2026 · 31 min read
A personalized neoantigen vaccine kept all nine high-risk kidney cancer patients recurrence-free past 3 years. What it proves, and what it doesn't.
Analysis · 4 Sept 2026 · 51 min read
An evidence-scored ranking of the latest medical breakthroughs of 2025 and 2026, from in-vivo gene editing to personalized cancer vaccines, drawn from Frontier's public index of 27 scored results in biomedicine.
Analysis · 31 Aug 2026 · 54 min read
The latest scientific breakthroughs of 2026 so far, ranked on evidence, impact and novelty: 295 papers in Frontier's open index, scored as of 11 November.
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