Context illustration of an electrocorticography electrode grid on the brain, not Ann Johnson or her actual implant

She Lost Her Voice After a Stroke. An Implant Helped Her Hear a Familiar One Again.

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

View from inside the entrance of Lombrives cave toward daylight and visitors on an outdoor path.

They Spent 40 Days Underground. Their Leader Said It Felt Like 29.

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

2025 study figure comparing volatile skin-oil chemical profiles in Parkinson’s disease and control participants.

She Noticed a Change in Her Husband’s Smell. It Became a Parkinson’s Research Lead.

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.

A brown clay robber frog, Haddadus binotatus, resting among leaves; contextual species photograph.

The Frogs Vanished. Museum Jars Held Clues to Their Killer.

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

Historical illustration of horses in water surrounded by electric eels, depicting Alexander von Humboldt’s account.

Electric Eels Leap Out of the Water to Deliver a Stronger Shock

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

Research figure showing a Harris’s hawk wearing a head-mounted camera, camera hardware, a panoramic view and optical diagrams.

A Tiny Camera Reveals How Hawks Keep Their Target in Sight

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

Gus the gopher tortoise resting on sand in his enclosure at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in March 2026.

A 104-Year-Old Tortoise Started Eating Again—and His Keepers Could Barely Contain Their Excitement

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.

Reflected-light cross-section of Teghaza 001 showing fractured Martian minerals and a one-millimeter scale bar

Scientists Nearly Passed on This Mars Rock—Then It Turned Out to Be 4.1 Billion Years Old

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

Symbolic illustration of a snow-covered Arctic shoreline with a leather pocketbook, clothes brush and comb beside dark clothing fragments.

His Papers Named Harry Peglar. His Clothes Suggested Someone Else. DNA Finally Weighed In.

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.

Hubble image of the irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 4449, with blue stars, pink star-forming regions and dark dust.

These Galaxies Made Their Own Oxygen. On Average, Only 11% Stayed Behind.

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

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