This backpack-mounted exoskeleton turns excess walking force into electricity

This assistive technology could make rehabilitation after accidents and even day-to-day activities easier

Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

June 17, 2021

Bacteria mix their genomes with partners so much they turn themselves into hybrids

Elise Cutts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

June 16, 2021

Building trust and relationships is key in changing vaccine-hesitant minds

June 16, 2021

Domestic cats fall for the same visual illusions as we do

Sam Zlotnik, University of Florida

June 15, 2021

The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes

Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

June 14, 2021

Ancient poop analysis reveals extinct species of bacteria

Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

June 14, 2021

This ancient child burial is the world's oldest, dating back 80,000 years

Amanda Rossillo, Duke University

June 12, 2021

Bioengineered bacteria can make dyes more sustainable

Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

June 11, 2021

We must reckon with our ableism if we want healthcare to work for people

June 10, 2021

Scientists celebrate Inverte-Butt-Fest, a photographic homage to spineless backsides

"Invert butts should be celebrated because they have a wide diversity in form and function, and because they bring us all joy"

Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

June 10, 2021

Seeing in different lights paints a more detailed picture of Jupiter

Margaux Lopez, Vera C. Rubin Observatory

June 10, 2021

Ocean mammals keep cancer at bay with tumor suppressing genes

Hazel Walker, University of Cambridge

June 9, 2021

Fruit fly "cancer avatars" recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment

Joyce Yu, The Francis Crick Institute

June 8, 2021

Ecology is overwhelmingly white. How can we halt gatekeeping and decolonize ecology?

Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

June 6, 2021

How a scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy

Olivia Harper Wilkins, Caltech

June 3, 2021

The Bind

June 1, 2021

Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars

Maggie Chen, Harvard University

June 1, 2021

The American West's sagebrush sea is rapidly vanishing

Lauren J. Young

May 31, 2021

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The Human Pangenome
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The Eclipse that made Einstein Famous
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Meet Grete Hermann, the philosopher of quantum physics
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