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
Overlay of hands and abstract patterns in purple and blue tones, symbolizing hope for Parkinson's cure.
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
An image of the zika virus (in purple) infecting monkey cells (in green)
Virology
Why 20 women were just deliberately exposed to Zika
Kristin Houser
A medical scale hanging on a wall.
Public Health
What BMI can’t tell us about our health
Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan
An electron micrograph of an HIV-1 virus particle (gold) connected to an infected T cell (green)
Medicine
“Hydrogel” drugs could suppress HIV with minimal treatments
Sam Jarman
Surgeons analyzing brain images on a computer screen
Cancer
AI diagnoses brain tumors in 90 minutes or less
Kristin Houser
An image of a pink dumbbell inside a clear pill capsule.
Sports
New weight loss drug acts like an “exercise pill”
Ross Pomeroy
A man walking up the stairs with a notebook.
Biology
Exercise scientist explains what your daily step goal should be by your weight
Bob Buresh
A patient undergoing deep brain stimulation in an operating room with an oxygen mask.
Mental Health
New research on deep brain stimulation shows biomarkers could help depression treatment
Sankaraleengam Alagapan and Christopher Rozell
A woman preparing to administer a malaria vaccine with a syringe.
Vaccines
Why aren’t we moving faster on malaria vaccines?
Jonny Thomson
A woman laying in the grass with her eyes closed.
Healthcare
What the science really says about vitamin D deficiency
Elina Hypponen
A girl is eating an apple in front of a window.
Food
Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out
Kaitlyn O’Mara and Brian Fry and James Carter