The archive

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