A Low Hum Has Haunted People for 50 Years
Scientists studied 28 people who hear a mysterious low-frequency sound. The most likely source is inside the listener's own ear.
Medicine & Health
Building a Brain Requires DNA Shredding
Newborn neurons break both strands of their own DNA just to reach their destination. The brain typically repairs it, but what if it can't?
Plant Hormones Are Circulating in Mammals
Your body may not just absorb plant hormones from food — it might actually make them. What is mammalian physiology doing with a hormone that belongs in a leaf?
You Can't Help Veering Left
Scientists tested 573 people across multiple countries and kept ruling out explanations. Culture? No. Handedness? No. Dominant eye? No. So why does almost everyone walk the same direction?
A Human Body Ran on a Pig's Liver and Kidneys
The pig liver produced bile. The kidneys cleared creatinine. The body's metabolism shifted toward human baselines. The borrowed organs acted like they belonged.
One Eye. One Patient. Gene Therapy Pushes Cells Backward in Time.
A Boston biotech just dosed its first patient with a gene therapy designed to make damaged eye cells act young again.
Your Cells' Powerhouses Have a Secret Extension Cord
Your cells don't just drift energy toward the nucleus and hope for the best. They run a dedicated line. What happens when the line snaps?
Magic Mushroom Dose Didn't Cure Alzheimer's. It Did Start a Conversation.
A decade into Alzheimer's, nearly silent for five years, and then a single psilocybin dose sparked four hours of conversation.
A Ruptoblast Is an Immune Cell. It Does Exactly What That Sounds Like.
A Stanford discovery in planarian flatworms reveals an immune cell that detonates itself, destroying up to 70 surrounding cells in minutes and leaving no trace.
Your Brain Has a Read Receipt Now
A blood draw that reads your brain's gene activity in real time; no surgery, no tissue samples. The tool is called INTACT.
Cats Unlock Answers About Breast Cancer
Researchers mapped the cancer genome of nearly 500 of our feline friends and found mutations that mirror human breast cancer.
The Brain Cells That Learned Pong Just Cleared a New Level. This Time It's Doom.
They started by walking into walls and shooting at nothing. Then something shifted. Lab-grown neurons, 200,000 of them, are learning on their own.
Scrambled Gene Caused Deafness. One Injection Restored Hearing.
One gene. One injection. Silence, gone. Half of these patients now hear at normal levels.
Psychedelic Therapy Without the Trip
A team lead by Dr. David E. Olson built molecules that hit the brain's "healing" serotonin switch like a psychedelic, but somehow skipped the hallucinations.
Chronic Nerve Pain Has a Power Problem. Scientists Located an Outlet.
Your nerves aren't just hurting, they're running out of power. Duke scientists found a cellular delivery system that could change how chronic pain is treated.
Your Unborn Baby Catches Your Yawns
Researchers found that fetuses yawn more often after their mothers yawn, suggesting social bonding begins before birth, transmitted through pressure and shared hormones.
Gene Therapy Worked. Four Years Later, a Tumor Grew in the Same Cells.
A child's gene therapy worked, but then a tumor showed up 4 years later with viral fragments inside it.
Brain in a Jar Is Alive, Not Sci-Fi
A startup is keeping dead human brains metabolically alive to test Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drugs. The science is real. So are the ethical questions.