Ann Johnson helped researchers turn attempted speech into a synthetic voice modeled on her own. The achievement was real, but it remains experimental.

Fifteen volunteers lived without clocks or daylight in a French cave. Their accounts reveal how differently time could feel underground.

Joy Milne noticed a change in her husband’s smell years before his Parkinson’s diagnosis. Researchers turned that observation into studies of skin chemistry.

Preserved frogs helped researchers reconstruct a mysterious die-off in Brazil, and returning to the forest revealed an unexpected recovery.

Laboratory experiments reveal how a defensive leap directs an electric eel’s shock through its target.

Tiny head-mounted cameras reveal how two trained hawks track airborne targets and change their head movements after the catch.

Gus, Halifax’s 104-year-old gopher tortoise, has started eating again after surgery. For his keepers, a bite of banana was a major recovery milestone.

Teghaza 001 looked like a routine Mars meteorite. Then scientists found a 4.1-billion-year-old crust sample altered by ancient Martian water.

A leather pocketbook tied a long-lost sailor to Harry Peglar, but his clothing suggested another identity. A 2026 DNA study has now resolved the contradiction while leaving the expedition’s wider mysteries open.

A census of 37 dwarf galaxies found that most of the oxygen their stars produced is missing. The mystery is how far it traveled.