The archive

The body's own brake on inflammation, and cash that slowed a baby's aging

A feather explains why birds outlived the asteroid, and DNA that keeps healing itself

LA's wildlife bridge opens, and mushrooms may protect nerves during chemo

New heart-attack rules finally see women, and sleep science gets its due

Eye drops start restoring sight, and AI cracks a 200-year puzzle

Pikas help yaks thrive, and older brains keep their balance

Lifestyle programs beat expectations, and beavers are rebuilding rivers

An 80,000-year-old arrow tip and a genetic map that finally sees everyone

A sea squirt molecule turned back aging in mice, and salmon came home

An immune switch keeps mice young, and ancient microbes hint at life's first handshake

Semaglutide slows aging in mice, and ex-poachers now guard a forest

A malaria antibody search stumbled onto a fix for a tick allergy

A telescope launched for deep space, astrocytes remembered how to be neurons

1.4-million-year-old footprints, and a snake painted 20 feet long

The brain quietly rebuilds itself, and dogs age a lot like us

Eye drops brought sight back to blind mice, and frogs hold an antidote

Why bugs gross us out traces back 9,000 years, and neighbors saved a lake

Indigo light stops nearsightedness, and a 190-year pangolin secret

Immune cells learn to invade tumors, and a temple beats Stonehenge by 1,000 years

A ghostly star stream maps dark matter, and sleep finds its sweet spot

Loneliness's overlooked upside, and a wave conservationists rewild sharks for the first time

A melanoma vaccine that actually worked, and corneas grown from one donor

A cancer vaccine finally proves itself, and gut bacteria build stronger muscles

Loneliness and belonging share one brain circuit, drawn out by drawing together

A cancer vaccine works, and storks return to England after 600 years

Attention alone can calm inflammation, and fear turned into gharial guardianship

A real narcolepsy fix lands, and navigating for a living guards the brain

A worm unlocks nature's own bioplastic, and a mushroom eases pain and sorrow

The obesity curve finally bent, and dolphins passed on a hunting trick

A black hole wearing a star's disguise, and cartilage that grows back

Memories outlast massive synapse loss, and aging's rust reverses

The brain can rebuild itself, and dogs have a built-in smile detector

Dogs have read our faces for 14,000 years, and light turns out to feed us

Loneliness cracks like hunger, and forgotten languages leave a mark

A whale's first breath on camera, and whirlpools hiding on the Sun

A hidden black hole reveals itself, and Kazakhstan's tiger comes home

An mRNA flu shot finally wins approval, and practice rewires the brain

The first animals moved 10 million years early, and a pill calmed a peanut allergy

Ancient brains can survive burial for millennia, and roads got far safer

A "useless" chest organ turns out to guard your whole life

Psilocybin puts veterans' PTSD into remission, and farm dust names its magic germs

Two lost ancestors turn up in our DNA, and a dementia trial that worked

A 60-year "dead" reef teems with life, and hunger works like loneliness

Ghost ancestors surface in our DNA, and Betelgeuse's hidden companion

Your gut helps write memories, and Maasai herders now guard lions

Cave paintings finally get a true age, and a rat-free island's birds return

Your skin secretly senses light, and ancient humans were master toolmakers

Some brains resist Alzheimer's, and eyes evolved from an ancient "cyclops

A bionic eye lets blind patients read again, and fiber eases arthritis pain

A gene that guards the aging brain, and a tigress raising four cubs

A queen mole-rat rules by scent, and kidneys can finally wait

A paralyzed man petted his dog again, and mice outlast a volcano

A mushroom trip reshapes the brain for weeks, and Congo hides a new monkey

Alzheimer's sleep loss finally has a cause, and a laptop beat a quantum computer

A rocky planet held onto its air, and ancient princesses turn out to be archers

A cheap pill eases long COVID fatigue, and koalas hid a secret die-off

A once-in-a-millennium asteroid flyby, and touch returns to a paralyzed hand

A paralyzed man's hands kept working months after the power switched off

Physicists caught Hawking's glow in a lab, cracking a cancer mystery

A shingles vaccine may protect the brain, and ancient pines keep history

A sugar molecule found near our galaxy's core, and a vaccine for koalas

A frog's gut bacteria erases tumors, and teens are safer than ever

A spit test now finds endometriosis in days, not years

A frog's gut bacterium erased tumors, and dementia rates keep falling

Black holes too old to exist, and a grandson's gift of walking again

A single neuron rivals an AI network, and ovaries don't retire

Star-shaped brain cells guard your memories, and creatine fights cancer

A TB vaccine may flush Alzheimer's plaques; languages slow brain aging

A magnetar is born, and Alzheimer's reveals a new cell killer

Your deep sleep builds muscle and the US death rate just set a record low

Hobbit humans dined on dragon scraps, and smell wires us to mice

A woman with Alzheimer's speaks again, and Southeast Asia nears the end of malaria

Scientists built life from scratch, and a blood test sees Alzheimer's two years early

The gene edit that saved Alyssa, and Vera Rubin's telescope opens its eye

Alzheimer's hijacks the brain's own courier to spread, and 50 million Africans just got power

Two candy-floss planets, and a brain that still reads under anesthesia

Scientists heard from a black hole's edge, and the brain rebuilds to heal

Psilocybin briefly restored speech in an 80-year-old with Alzheimer's, and beavers fixed London's flooding

Cervical cancer deaths near zero in young women, and Neanderthals weren't doomed

Ancient burial cave held only women, and $500 million wants to end the common cold

Parenthood sharpens the brain, and coral reefs are hardier than expected

Cervical cancer hit zero in young women, and a comet from before our sun

Half of older adults improved with age, and T. rex was still growing at 40

The man with ALS who got his voice back, and ice that absorbs its own carbon

Young gut bacteria restore an aging brain, and solar just topped coal

Denisovan DNA still runs our immune systems, and the brain learns in two steps

Mammals can regenerate tissue after all, and Alzheimer's protein protects neurons

Feeling alone ages the brain, and a paralyzed man now types with his thoughts

Muscles release a protein that fights depression, and a brain implant gave ALS a voice

The brain treats loneliness like hunger, and a brutal cancer finally yields a cure

Loneliness works like hunger, and ancient DNA still tunes our immunity

Your brain is not done yet

Joints that learn to grow young, Language is older than we thought

The biology of aging is moving faster than we expected

GLP-1 Drugs Turn Out to Have a Lot More to Say About Cancer