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Will the Supreme Court keep Trump from being on the ballot?
The Supreme Court’s decision on whether Colorado can take former President Donald Trump off the ballot in the 2024 election may be one of the most consequential in its history. The case will turn on...
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Light-powered pacemaker is thinner than a human hair
A new wireless pacemaker, powered by light and thinner than a human hair, can be implanted to regulate cardiovascular or neural activity in the body, researchers report. The featherlight membranes can...
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Why shaming countries for human rights abuses can backfire
On this episode of the Big Brain podcast, a scholar examines the geopolitical impacts of confronting human rights violations. How do you stop a government from continuing to commit human rights abuses?...
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Are more mosquitoes a fix for the world’s mosquito problem?
On this episode of the Big Brains podcast, Scott O’Neill explains why breeding millions of mosquitoes could help save lives. Mosquito-borne diseases are one of the greatest global health threats,...
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Blame gut bacteria for why more women develop Alzheimer’s?
A pair of new studies examine gender differences in Alzheimer’s disease and the possible role of estrogen and the gut microbiome. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, almost two-thirds of...
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Is the definition of Alzheimer’s disease wrong?
A neurobiologist says the leading definition of Alzheimer’s disease may be flawed—and we need to fix it to find a cure. For more than a century, scientists have been studying Alzheimer’s disease and...
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Team finds one of the most ancient stars from another galaxy
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that fell into ours billions of years ago, could help reveal how the universe evolved in other regions. The first generation of stars transformed the universe....
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What dogs teach us about aging
The world’s largest study of dogs is investigating questions about our four-legged friends’ aging. Every dog owner has faced the hard realization that their dog won’t live as long as they do, but we’ve...
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The right tutoring can reverse learning loss from the pandemic
New research results show promise for reducing the pandemic-era learning loss in students. The preliminary results from the Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) show that in-school high-dosage...
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Why do we die? Do we have to?
On this episode of the Big Brains podcast, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan digs into why humans die—and how we can live longer. They’re perhaps the oldest questions in the science: Why do we die? And...
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