Science Feed Discoveries May 2026

Research Archive

May 2026

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Interdisciplinary

Microbe ‘cities’ may solve a key ocean mystery

Scientific American · 15 May 2026
Medicine

One in five people may carry this hidden cholesterol risk without knowing it

ScienceDaily · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Chinese-European mission to reveal shape of Earth’s magnetic shield

Science · 15 May 2026
Medicine

CAR T-cell therapy bolstered by stiffening up cancer cells first

New Scientist Health · 15 May 2026
Astronomy & Space

This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 15 – 24

Sky & Telescope · 15 May 2026
Medicine

[Correspondence] Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the South Atlantic

The Lancet · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Selective divergence between Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Multiscale fatigue crack initiation in hierarchical additively manufactured alloys

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Streamlined optical training of large-scale modern deep learning architectures with direct feedback alignment

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

The pig in the python: US decennial labor flows and economic opportunity, 1910–2040

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Scientific authority cues increase the spread of misinformation

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

PARP1 deficiency mitigates amyloid pathology, neurodegeneration, and cognitive decline in a familial Alzheimer’s disease model

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

Blue- versus green-absorbing anion channelrhodopsins, essential tools in optogenetics, differ fundamentally in gating mechanisms

PNAS · 15 May 2026
Astronomy & Space

How Did This Peculiar Planet Pair Form?

Sky & Telescope · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

CDC plan to retire lab monkeys to Texas sanctuary draws ire

Science · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough

ScienceDaily · 15 May 2026
Interdisciplinary

A 47-year study reveals when strength and fitness start to fade

ScienceDaily · 15 May 2026
Physics

Solar-pumped Radiation-balanced Laser

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Optical Resonances: From Eigenmodes to Scattering Features

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Adaptive homotopy continuation for robust dispersion curve computation in viscoelastic waveguides: guaranteed branch identity continuity

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Kolmogorov-Arnold Chemical Reaction Neural Networks for learning pressure-dependent kinetic rate laws

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Weakly nonlinear analysis of Hopf bifurcations in the elastohydrodynamics of Cosserat rods

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Boris and Exponential Integrators in the Theory of Particles Interacting with Magnetic Turbulence

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Stochastic Resonance in a Thermally Driven Low-Dimensional Geodynamo Model

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Monolithic axial InGaAs quantum dot emitters in GaAs-based nanowires via Sb-mediated facet engineering

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Physics

Policy-DRIFT: Dynamic Reward-Informed Flow Trajectory Steering

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Biology

ToolMol: Evolutionary Agentic Framework for Multi-objective Drug Discovery

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Biology

Directional Confusions Reveal Divergent Inductive Biases Through Rate-Distortion Geometry in Human and Machine Vision

arXiv · 15 May 2026
Biology

Interpretable EEG Microstate Discovery via Variational Deep Embedding: A Systematic Architecture Search with Multi-Quadrant Evaluation

arXiv · 15 May 2026