You Have Genes That Regrow Limbs. The Trick Is Flipping the ON Switch.
Researchers found a shared genetic switch across three species that controls limb regrowth and used it to partially restore that ability in mice via gene therapy.
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Your Legs Turn to Rubber at a Cliff's Edge. It Isn't Fear.
Your nervous system runs a secret balance protocol near every ledge you've ever stood on. Why do some people feel it and others don't?
To Catch a Liar, Stop Looking at Them
Your brain treats a lying face like a puzzle it can't put down, and that's exactly the problem. The real tells aren't where you're looking.
A Hot-Pink Insect in a Green Rainforest Is a Calendar
The katydid isn't the wrong color. The leaf isn't green yet.
The Read on Testosterone and Cancer Just Changed
A decades-old assumption about hormones and tumor growth has a significant exception. The brain appears to play by completely different rules.
The Brain Doesn't Need Consciousness to Understand Language
The unconscious brain can process language and predict upcoming words.
Dad's Gym Habits Ship With His Sperm
The sperm delivery story has a plot twist: it carries a molecular diary of recent lifestyle choices and kids get a copy.
Rome Built an Empire. Jerusalem Built Better Floors 8,000 Years Earlier.
A vanished village left behind floors that historians credited to Rome. The builders had no writing and no metal, but did have a working kiln-chemistry operation.
Stitched Craters on Pompeii's Walls Match a Weapon That Fired Like a Machine Gun
Marks between Pompeii's two northern gates don't match sling bullets or standard Roman artillery. A Greek engineer left a clue in 250 BC.
Three Monkeys Walked Into a Virtual Forest
Monkeys navigated virtual worlds using intention alone. Imagine a future where people with paralysis could control everyday objects this way.
The North Sea Is Hiding a Whole Country Beneath It
Ancient DNA pulled from North Sea sediments is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about Ice Age Europe — and filling in a conspicuous gap in human prehistory.
Mars Volcano Is Changing the Planet
A planet declared geologically dead for billions of years may have an active mantle plume.
A Dead Galaxy Is Screaming Radio Signals Into Space. It Shouldn't Be.
A galaxy that stopped making stars billions of years ago is firing off intense radio bursts — and the leading explanation involves ancient stellar corpses finding each other in the dark.
Space Broke Sperm's GPS
Sperm in microgravity can still swim. The problem is they've completely lost the plot. What that means for humanity's space ambitions is not a small question.
An Octopus Arm Can Navigate a Mate's Internal Organs and Deliver Sperm. The Rest of the Octopus Barely Notices.
Scientists just found that one octopus arm navigates in total darkness by tasting female hormones — and keeps working even after it's been cut off.