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

Force sensors sewn into his gloves fed pressure back into the brain's sensory regions, so he could feel again too. Then a fire in the building forced the team to switch the whole system off for three months, far longer than planned. When they checked back in, Thomas hadn't lost the gains. He was still moving individual fingers, still feeling tingling in his wrist when nothing was plugged in.

Then in 2024, Collin Cherubim of Harvard and colleagues pointed the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile at LHS 1140b and caught a telltale signature: helium, in an excited state, leaking away from the planet [17]. That escaping gas is the fingerprint of an actual atmosphere, not a bare rock.

When the team blocked EP2 on just those macrophages in aged mice, the cleanup crews came back online. The mice ended up leaner, with less visceral fat, better grip strength, sharper memory, and 59 of 71 previously abnormal blood proteins restored to youthful levels [72].

Heat pumps didn't follow that script. Shipments stayed flat through winter and have climbed gradually since, according to energy economist Lucas Davis at UC Berkeley [199].

Annual catches had collapsed from 3 million pounds to just 150,000 by 1994 [239]. Starting in 1999, the state began tearing dams off the Penobscot River, finishing the job in 2016. In 2025, 20 million alewives ran upriver to spawn, a "premier success story of our time," in the words of Rustin Taylor of the Alewife Harvesters of Maine [239]. Locals used to scoop the fish into buckets by hand to help them past the smaller dams still standing.

Heart rates synced up more strongly between people who already knew each other than between strangers, and the effect specifically appeared when people were physically close and paying attention to the same thing: a shared skyline, a shared task, a shared conversation [111].

Of the remaining self-described omnivores, half said they were likely or very likely to go vegan within the year, and 52 percent thought their parents would follow suit [224]. The single biggest thing holding people back wasn't taste or cost, it was simply not knowing enough about how to do it: 59 percent named a lack of information as the top barrier [224].

A 6 percent catnip oil lotion performed just as well as the DEET, and even a 2 percent version came close [256]. Nepetalactone, the compound responsible, has been known to repel insects for years. Nobody had turned it into a usable product for the people who need it most.