Science

a colorful image of a human embryo at Day 11 under a microscope

Model human embryo, created from stem cells, survives past two weeks

A model human embryo capable of developing past day 14 could revolutionize our understanding of human development.

How years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today

The current approach to fire management poses unnecessarily high stakes for forests. Here’s why fighting every fire does more harm than good.

Paul Hessburg and Keala Hagmann and Susan J. Prichard

rows of black rock with the gloved hands of a scientist in the background

Planet Earth

Record-breaking amount of Earth’s mantle drilled out of ocean floor

Scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution have retrieved “a staggering” amount of mantle rock from below the ocean floor.

Kristin Houser

Medicine

Monkeys’ alcohol consumption drops 50% after hormone therapy

Heavy-drinking monkeys cut their alcohol consumption by 50% after researchers treated them with a hormone called “FGF21.”

Kristin Houser

Neuroscience

Researchers can predict rats’ behavior by reading their brains

A team at the University of Oregon have decoded the patterns of brain activity to predict basic actions in mice.

Teresa Carey

Biology

“BioDome” triggers near-complete limb regeneration in frogs

A new limb regeneration treatment allowed adult African clawed frogs to regrow near-complete functional legs following amputation.

Kristin Houser

Drugs

Morning glories may be a source of new psychedelics and medicines

Researchers have found that the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a morning glory holds the potential for new psychedelic compounds and medicines.

B. David Zarley

Brain

Here is how your brain understands one voice in a crowd

Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered fresh insight into how the brain might deliberately hear one speaker while shutting out or ignoring another.

Teresa Carey

Outer Space

Startup will send prized artifacts to the International Space Station

Uplift Aerospace will transport valuable goods to the ISS and house them in their Constellation Vault starting this year.

Teresa Carey

Food

Smart food packaging keeps food fresh and reduces waste

A new "smart" type of food packaging promises to eliminate food poisoning by emitting chemicals that reduce harmful bacteria like E.coli, Salmonella, and Listeria, allowing meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables to last longer.

Teresa Carey

Animals

What the ancient, alien jellyfish can tell us about the human brain

The jellyfish nervous system, revealed by glowing genes, may help unlock the secrets of how our own brain evolved.

B. David Zarley

Genetics

Would we still see ourselves as “human” if other hominin species hadn’t gone extinct?

It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?

Nicholas R. Longrich

Biology

Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death, study finds

Australian scientists found that bodies kept moving for 17 months after being pronounced dead.

Mike Colagrossi

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