Humans

  1. Health & Medicine

    Let’s learn about vaccines

    These medical treatments have saved millions of lives and spared many others from seriously unpleasant infections.

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  2. Brain

    Parakeets talk using brain areas similar to ours

    Brain activity during vocalizing in small parrots — called budgerigars or parakeets — shows a similar pattern to what’s seen in people.

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  3. Materials Science

    This electric ‘slime’ might help injuries heal faster

    Our bodies call in healing cells with an electrical signal. When stretched or squeezed, this gel makes electricity that could boost that alert.

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  4. Chemistry

    A new map of Africa sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

    Mapping the element strontium across the continent is helping track down the birthplaces of enslaved Africans brought to the Americas.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Nearsighted? Teens’ benefits from special contacts can be lasting

    Multifocal contact lenses stop the progression of myopia — and the benefits can last even after use of these special lenses ends.

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  6. Chemistry

    Teen finds cheaper way to make drugs against killer viruses

    This drug-making achievement also nabbed the top award — and $100,000 in prize money — at the 2025 Regeneron ISEF competition.

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  7. Space

    Is the International Space Station too clean?

    Testing surfaces on board the space station revealed low microbial diversity, something that’s been linked to health problems elsewhere.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    ADHD symptoms may boost teens’ risk of vaping or smoking

    Having multiple ADHD symptoms increases a teen’s risk of using vapes or other tobacco. That’s bad because nicotine is especially addictive for kids.

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  9. Humans

    Wiggling ears may have once helped boost human hearing

    Ancient ear muscles may not help us hear today. They can, however, offer one readout of how hard someone is trying to listen.

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  10. Materials Science

    A beautiful blue butterfly wing offers a new way to study cancer

    Once a morpho butterfly wing is placed atop a thin slice of tissue, shining polarized light through it can help reveal how likely breast cancer is to spread.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Explainer: What is cancer?

    Cancer is a whole collection of diseases with one thing in common: all develop when the body’s cells start dividing out of control.

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  12. Materials Science

    This engineer uses light to get hearts pumping

     Pengju Li designed a new type of pacemaker to help doctors during open-heart surgery.

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