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

The compounds essentially take over the job photoreceptors used to do, waking up retinal circuitry that survives even after the light-sensing cells themselves have died. Two of the most promising versions worked as simple eye drops, delivered the same way you'd treat pink eye 2.

The flap has a W-shaped gouge along its edge, exactly the mark two fangs leave tearing through flesh 21. X-ray fluorescence mapping ruled out a break during fossilization, and a dark band of melanization around the wound, the same darkening living arthropods show while regrowing tissue, convinced researchers it healed while the animal was still alive. Only about ten radiodont flaps like it have ever turned up.

Faster breakdown meant more biologically active soil underneath. Private gardens won by a wide margin; lawns came in dead last, with farmland and meadows in between 7.

Over a five-year primary mission it will survey about 12 percent of the sky to map dark matter and measure dark energy's effects with far more precision than before, and its coronagraph will be able to image planets 100 million times fainter than their host stars 22.

The protein works like a molecular sponge, binding the toxin in the bloodstream before it can reach nerve and muscle cells, a much simpler fix than the immune-response and nerve-blocking approaches researchers had tried and failed with before 226.

The advantage didn't show up in bus drivers or pilots, who follow fixed routes. Researchers concluded the protective factor isn't driving itself, it's continuous real-time navigation, the constant work of tracking where you are and where you're going, which leans hard on the hippocampus, one of the first regions Alzheimer's damages 229.

The old hog-waste lagoon is now a freshwater pond with migratory birds stopping by 204.

The team also measured "self-other overlap," how much a person's sense of identity blends with their partner's, and found shared awe moved that needle in a way solo awe didn't.