Is your willpower stronger than a proton beam?

How much are researchers — especially marginalized researchers — expected to endure just to stay in science?

Stingers and spikes across nature have the same shape. Here's why.

Not everything in biology evolved for a purpose.

Networks are math squares disguised as drawings

This is why neural networks are linear algebra under the hood

A tiny scrap of the genetic molecule RNA can *almost* copy itself.

Here's what it means for the origin of life

Complexity is less than the sum of its parts, not more

Patterns are a shorthand for reality

Elon Musk wasn't stupid to buy Twitter

New research shows that the X algorithm pushes people to the political right

The origin of life wasn't fat-free

James Sáenz studies how fatty molecules might have helped life get started

Tell me how you really feel

And by that I mean: please fill out my survey.

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"

Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

Paper Roundup 3.2.2026

A human-curated research roundup published each Tuesday

Maybe don't call exoplanets "Earth-like" until the 2040s

A plea and a note on science communication

Paper Roundup 27.1.2026

A human-curated research roundup published each Tuesday