Monday, October 5, 2026
ArchiveThree Scientists Win Medicine Nobel for Using Light to Control Brain Cells
Shine a blue light, a neuron fires; shine yellow, it goes quiet. That trick — borrowed from pond algae — won this year's medicine Nobel and rebuilt how neuroscience asks questions.
Putin’s nuclear threats no longer work
Moscow has played the nuclear card so often the world stopped flinching. The FT's uncomfortable point: a threat nobody believes anymore removes a brake as well as a danger.
Fox News wanted war images in Ukraine - their journalists died
A colleague had already warned the network he took too many risks in Syria. Fox sent him to Ukraine anyway, and two of its journalists did not come back. NPR reconstructs how the trip was approved.
Scientists trace plague back 5,500 years using DNA from ancient teeth
Several dozen people died near Lake Baikal 5,500 years ago. The bacterium that killed them left its DNA in their teeth — and pushes the plague's biography back well before the empires it's famous for toppling.
Behind The Iron Curtain, Maťkovia Staged A Post-Punk Revolution
They recorded in secret, dodged the censors, then sat on the tapes for four decades. The reels have finally surfaced — and the Bratislava noise on them is better than it has any right to be.