Health

A person wearing blue gloves operates a piece of scientific equipment, handling small yellow cubes that are immersed in a cryogenic container.
Fertility
The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF
A look back at the history of infertility treatments and ahead to the tech that could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
Kristin Houser
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Drugs
The exciting research that may cure Parkinson’s 
GeneCode is developing a drug it hopes won’t just alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms but also protect and restore patient’s neural health.
Kevin Dickinson
A child sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room, holding and looking intently at a tablet, as if testing the Goldilocks hypothesis for the perfect screen brightness.
Mental Health
Beyond screen time: Rethinking kids’ tech use with the “Goldilocks hypothesis”
The “Goldilocks hypothesis” asks parents to think beyond screen time and consider the habits that teens build around technology use.
Kevin Dickinson
A collage of the band Queen performing onstage, a 3D model of an insulin molecule, and an illustration of soundwaves.
Medicine
Researchers engineer insulin-releasing cells that respond to sound waves
Bill Sullivan
A collage featuring a group of women doing water aerobics and an arm holding up a barbell.
Neuroscience
These 2 types of exercise can improve brain health in your 80s, new study finds
Ronald Cohen and Brian Ho
A collage featuring images of a man with a sore back, 3D renders of the central nervous system and a brain scan.
Healthcare
Study: chronic pain’s root cause could be a process in the brain
Yoni Ashar
A picture of a woman laying face-first on a bed collaged with an image of a person rubbing out a knot in their back.
Biology
Bad sleep worsens pain. Researchers may have discovered why.
Kevin Dickinson
An image of a hydrogel and an image of someone giving themselves an insulin shot.
Medicine
A new hydrogel offers the hope of ending daily injections for diabetes
Jonny Thomson
A collage featuring images of an x-ray of deep brain stimulation
Neuroscience
Zapping injured brains can improve cognition and memory
Kristin Houser
a grid of eight images of cancer cells being treated with lidocaine
Cancer
Lidocaine makes cancer cells self-destruct, study finds
Kristin Houser
Close-up of stem cell research
Medicine
Stem cell injections could be the key to curing MS
Kristin Houser
a collage featuring a mouse and red and orange images of brain cells
Brain
Cholesterol drug suggests new way to treat Alzheimer’s
Kristin Houser
A mesmerizing hourglass symbolizing the passing of time and emphasizing the importance of healthspan.
Aging
Biggest science prize in history aims to extend human healthspan by a decade
Raiany Romanni