Forget laboratory tests: the Tour de France provides a real-world look at the limits of human fitness. Tadej Pogačar wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey bicycle with a bunch of riders (Photo: Jeff Patchaud/AFP via Getty Images) Published on July 23, 2026 08:39 am The official record for highest VO2 max belongs to a former
Researchers claim they are close to creating life from scratch after creating tiny, quivering blobs that use lab-made DNA to feed, grow and multiply in a dish. To find out how important this step is, and what direction scientists hope it will take, Madeleine Finley spoke with co-host Ian Sample and Kate Adamala, professor of
GLP-1 style drugs like Ozempic and Vegovy have become gamechangers in the fight against type 2 diabetes and reducing body fat, but for a significant portion of the population, the drugs have proven less successful. Some surprising new science suggests that this may be attributed to specific resistance to GLP-1s. New Stanford Research Links Genetics
A team of Australian researchers has developed a material that could completely change the way motorcycles are built. The new alloy is twice as strong as steel and three times stronger than traditional aluminum, while maintaining a level of elasticity that previously seemed impossible. For decades, there have been compromises in motorcycle design. Steel can
Last year, the world experienced a tsunami that was nearly the largest in recorded history. Yet, there was no one to actually experience it. Honestly, that’s probably for the best, because the 1,500-foot wall of water that resulted from the tsunami in Tracy Arm Fjord in remote Alaska would have killed everything in its path.