Jaxon Taylor: The Toddler Who Survived Internal Decapitation
Originally published 2022-10-01. In September 2015, a 16-month-old Australian boy named Jaxon Taylor survived an injury that kills most p...
Science & Technology
A good discovery leaves us with better questions. How do we know what lies inside Earth? What can a telescope tell us about a distant planet? Follow stories about research and technology, with space to consider how evidence is gathered and what a finding can—and cannot—explain.
Childbirth History and Telomere Length: Reading the Study Carefully
First published September 30, 2022. Headlines in 2018 announced that women who have children "age 11 years faster" than women wh...
Dostarlimab's 2022 Trial in a Specific Form of Rectal Cancer
First published September 30, 2022. What the trial showed in 2022, and what followed The initial paper reported complete clinical response...
DNA From Sitting Bull's Hair Confirms Ernie LaPointe's Ancestry
First published September 28, 2022. Yes. In October 2021, a team led by geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen confirm...
Nitrites in Processed Meat and Bowel Cancer: France's ANSES Findings
Originally published 2022-07-14. Do the nitrites in ham and bacon raise the risk of bowel cancer? In July 2022 France's food and health...
LHCb's Three Exotic Particles: A Pentaquark and Two Tetraquarks
Originally published 2022-07-12. In July 2022 the LHCb collaboration at CERN announced three hadrons that had never been observed before: ...
Tideglusib: The Alzheimer's Drug That Helped Mouse Teeth Repair
Originally published 2022-07-03. Can a drug make teeth repair themselves? In mice, at least partly, yes. In a study published in Scientifi...
UC Irvine's Nanowire Battery Electrode: 200,000 Cycles Explained
First published July 1, 2022. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) built a nanowire battery electrode that survived a...
Face Transplant Recipient Cameron Underwood's Remarkable Recovery
Originally published 2022-06-12. In January 2018, surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York gave Cameron Underwood, a 26-year-old man f...
Glowing GloFish Zebrafish Found Breeding in Brazil's Streams
First published June 6, 2022. Yes, genetically modified fluorescent zebrafish, the glowing pets sold under the GloFish brand, have been fo...
Dinosaur-Like Legs in Chicken Embryos: What the Fibula Study Found
First published June 5, 2022. Photo: chicken embryo, Graeme Campbell/Wikimedia In 2016 a team at the University of Chile reported that th...
Chile May Be Home to the World’s Oldest Tree: Gran Abuelo
A massive trunk can make human lifetimes feel brief. Gran Abuelo, an alerce in southern Chile, does that even before anyone assigns it an ag...
Obesogens: How Everyday Chemicals May Contribute to Obesity
Originally published 2022-05-19. Can chemicals in plastics, pesticides and polluted air make people gain weight? A large 2022 scientific r...
M87’s Black Hole: What the Wider Chandra View Reveals
Different instruments and scales: Chandra X-ray data and the EHT radio image. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen; radio: EHT Co...
FAST-PETase: The AI-Designed Enzyme That Breaks Down PET Plastic
In April 2022, chemical engineers and molecular biologists at the University of Texas at Austin reported an enzyme they called FAST-PETase ...
Chankillo: Peru's 2,300-Year-Old Solar Observatory Explained
The Fortified Temple at Chankillo, the hilltop enclosure above the Thirteen Towers. Photo: Janine Costa/AFP via Getty Images.
The First Complete Human Genome: What the T2T Team Achieved
Originally published 2022-04-03. On 31 March 2022, an international group of researchers called the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium ...
Henize 2-10: A Black-Hole Outflow and Nearby Star Formation
Black holes can strongly affect their surroundings. A January 2022 study presented evidence that an outflow associated with one black hole ...
Microplastics Found in Human Blood: What the 2022 Study Showed
Originally published 2022-03-30. Yes, plastic particles have been measured in human blood. In March 2022 Dutch scientists reported in the...
5,000 Exoplanets Confirmed: What NASA's March 2022 Milestone Meant
Artist's impression of the three planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, now named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Illustration: Pa...
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