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More than a feeling: Thinking about love as a virtue can change how we respond to hate
15 February 2026 @ 1:30 am
Love and hate seem like obvious opposites. Love, whether romantic or otherwise, involves a sense of warmth and affection for others. Hate involves feelings of disdain. Love builds up, whereas hate destroys.
Distrust and disempowerment, not apathy, keep employees from supporting marginalized colleagues
15 February 2026 @ 12:30 am
What really holds people back from stepping up as allies in support of their marginalized colleagues? For example, why don't more men say something when they see a colleague or a customer make a sexist remark about a female co-worker?
Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built
14 February 2026 @ 11:30 pm
The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.
When it comes to homelessness, what we call 'compassion fatigue' is something else entirely
14 February 2026 @ 11:00 pm
The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the needs of the sufferer is not love or charity, but justice. Today, there is plenty of research that points to a decline in compassion.
Inside Asia's Amazon—camera traps reveal the secrets of the Annamite Mountains
14 February 2026 @ 10:50 pm
A camera-trap survey conducted throughout 2025 has revealed the bewildering breadth of biodiversity hidden within the Annamite Mountains, a largely unexplored forest haven stretching for 1,100 kilometers through Laos and Vietnam to northeast Cambodia. The Annamites are the sole stronghold for some of Southeast Asia's most spectacular and super-rare species, from the aptly named Annamite striped rabbit to the mystical saola.
Key yeast enzyme discovered after 15 years reveals how sugar-donor DLOs are regulated
14 February 2026 @ 10:00 pm
After a long search, RIKEN researchers have identified an enzyme crucial for keeping lipid-linked sugar chains in check in yeast cells. This finding, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, reveals a novel regulatory mechanism for sugar-donor levels.
Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable
14 February 2026 @ 9:00 pm
Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked neatly, chilled meat may be in place. It appears that supply chains are functioning well. But appearances can be deceiving.
What's in your wine? Using NMR to reveal its chemical profile
14 February 2026 @ 8:10 pm
New work from Georgia Tech is showing how a simple glass of wine can serve as a powerful gateway for understanding advanced research and technologies. The project, inspired by an Atlanta Science Festival event hosted by School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Assistant Professor Andrew McShan, develops an innovative outreach and teaching module around nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, and is designed for easy adoption in introductory chemistry and biochemistry courses.
Astronomers trace a star's three-year infrared glow to black hole birth
14 February 2026 @ 8:00 pm
In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around three years before fading dramatically and disappearing, leaving behind a shell of dust. Although a telescope captured the phenomenon at the time, it took years for scientists to notice it.
How Indigenous ideas about nonlinear time can help us navigate ecological crises
14 February 2026 @ 8:00 pm
It is common to think of time as moving in only one direction—from point A, through point B, to point C.