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Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity
NEWS | 15 June 2026
We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a physician at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their implicit bias at the exam room door.

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How the 2024 Presidential Election Will Shape Science, Health and the Environment
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris represent very different futures when it comes to science-related policy issues that deeply affect our lives. Scientific American has rounded up the U.S. presidential candidates’ stances on some of the most important of these areas, including health care, reproductive rights, climate change, artificial intelligence, gun violence, nuclear weapons, education and immigration. Each article takes a deep dive, based on expert interviews and scientific consensus, into what a Trump or Harris presidency might mean for each of these issues during the next term—and possibly for years to come.

World:
The New Science of Diet, Weight and Health
NEWS | 15 June 2026
What humans really evolved to eat, why some people can be heavy but healthy, and what revolutionary weight-loss drugs are teaching us about appetite, pleasure and the brain itself

Current Events:
How AI Is Solving Humanity’s Age-Old Mysteries
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad

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The new story of the Milky Way's surprisingly turbulent past
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Astronomer Bob Benjamin has spent more than 20 years trying to figure out what the Milky Way looks like. They’d seen other galaxies merging with one another and looking unkempt, but they didn’t know whether an earlier Milky Way might have done the same. “It’s been shocking.”In short, the maps show not the Milky Way in static equilibrium, as researchers expected, but the galaxy’s departure from it. The maps show not the Milky Way in static equilibrium, as researchers expected, but the galaxy’s departure from it. By 2023 astronomers had mapped only about two billion of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars.

Latest:
‘Dark matter’ may be a whole shadow world of mysterious atoms and forces
NEWS | 15 June 2026
There could be dark atoms—made of dark protons, dark neutrons and dark electrons—held together by a dark version of electromagnetism. Dark matter might not be one particular particle—it may be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces. As other, simpler theories of dark matter have failed to find experimental confirmation, the dark sector concept has gained traction. At the first dark matter conference I attended after graduate school, I took a bet with a primary proponent of the “dark matter haze” idea, Dan Hooper of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2014 I moved from the University of Michigan to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I turned my attention from dark matter theories to devising new methods of dark matter detection.

Breaking:
Why we'll never live in space
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Just how profoundly difficult would it be to live beyond Earth—especially considering that outer space seems designed to kill us? Medical researcher Sonja Schrepfer of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has dug into two of the conditions that afflict space explorers. Their book on the modern space economy, Space to Grow, was published in 2025. “I inevitably encountered the same argument: space travel represents humanity’s destiny,” he says of the impetus for writing his essay “The Case against Space.” Space explorers are often portrayed as braver and better than those who remain on their home planet: they’re the ones pushing civilization forward. NASA’s Scientific Visualization StudioIn some ways, the desire for simpler living is part of what motivates space explorers.

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The puzzle of the first black holes
NEWS | 15 June 2026
These stars also probably formed in dense clusters, so it is likely that the black holes created by their deaths would have merged, giving rise to black holes of several thousand solar masses. A merger would give the black hole seed a copious new source of gas to eat, so the black hole should start growing rapidly. Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time. Scientists spotted a ringlike shadow around the black hole’s boundary—a feature that general relativity predicts will occur as a black hole’s strong gravity deflects light. Many revelations are in store in the very near future, and our understanding of black holes stands to be transformed.

This Just In:
Dark matter hunters may never find the universe’s missing mass
NEWS | 15 June 2026
The modifications would also need to explain why, if dark matter is just a modification to gravity—which is universally associated with all matter—not all galaxies and clusters appear to contain dark matter. Moreover, the most sophisticated attempts to formulate self-consistent theories of modified gravity to explain away dark matter end up invoking a type of dark matter anyway, to match the ripples we observe in the cosmic microwave background, leftover light from the big bang. Furthermore, although many versions of supersymmetry predict WIMP dark matter, the converse isn’t true; WIMPs are viable dark matter candidates even in a universe without supersymmetry. Some, for instance, include massive aggregate objects composed of many tinier constituents—akin to dark matter atoms composed of different dark particles. Light dark matter and dark sectors could also exist without relying on the WIMP mechanism to produce the right amount of dark matter—there are myriad other possibilities for how to generate the observed abundance of dark matter.

Today:
The universe’s first light could reveal secrets of the cosmic dawn
NEWS | 15 June 2026
The end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of the cosmic dawn mark the time when the universe as we know it began to take shape. These two missions will join a dozen others based in Earth’s most austere reaches, all aimed at studying this lightless era of the universe, the cosmic dark ages, and the ushering in of the cosmic dawn. Dark matter invisibly clumped together during these cosmic dark ages, and gravity quietly shepherded matter to form the superstructure of the universe. One surprising discrepancy involves the timeline of the cosmic dark ages, the epoch of reionization and the cosmic dawn. The projects aiming to investigate the cosmic dark ages and the cosmic dawn will try to find the oldest, earliest objects that put light into the universe.

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How the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Unless a thing travels faster than light—a physical impossibility—it cannot escape from behind the event horizon; it is irretrievably stuck inside the black hole. Particle pairs that straddle the event horizon of a black hole, however, become forever separated from each other. Matthew TwomblyFrom the outside, the black hole appears to be burning away (although it happens so slowly, you can’t see it happening in real life). The black hole at the Page time would suddenly lose its interior, and spacetime would come to an end, not at the singularity deep inside the black hole but right there at the event horizon. This happens literally: what was in one black hole gets shoved into one of the other copies far away, and the original black hole assumes a new spacetime interior from a different one.

World:
JWST could finally spot the very first stars in the universe
NEWS | 15 June 2026
Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the universe was very young. By far the most abundant form of matter in the universe, dark matter has evaded detection by the most advanced laboratories on Earth. If these structures are dominated by dark matter, they will rule out certain theories of dark matter under which it couldn’t form such small structures. Future observations of these and other lensed stars can tell us more about what dark matter can and can’t be. These studies also suggest that dark matter may have bizarre quantum properties that scientists call “fuzzy,” giving dark matter weird wavelike characteristics.

Current Events:
NASA’s Mars sample return mission in jeopardy as U.S. considers abandoning retrieval
NEWS | 15 June 2026
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie on Mars in July 2024. The Perseverance rover is the first phase of a multistep mission to bring bits of Mars to Earth known as Mars Sample Return (MSR), and the next step is dangling by a thread. Now that Perseverance has scooped up prized samples, scientists are faced with the prospect of leaving them on Mars to languish. In 2012 NASA announced the Mars 2020 mission, which would land a rover, later named Perseverance, to collect the samples. “I’m on record for having criticized Mars Sample Return,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis.

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