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
a woman about to get an MRI scan
Brain
Brain scans reveal the mystery of “hidden consciousness”
Kristin Houser
A glass of water with a green splash on a blue background.
Addiction
Extreme treatment for alcoholism slashes drinking by 90% in monkeys
Kristin Houser
A series of brains on a colorful background
Mental Health
Mental illnesses affect brain structure, but in surprisingly different ways
Kristin Houser
An image of a fetus in the womb.
Cancer
Replacing the immune system can boost cancer survival
Stephen Johnson
An image of a man wearing a system for delivering brain stimulation
Neuroscience
Brain stimulation helps people with Parkinson’s walk
Kristin Houser
A close up of a body fat tissue.
Healthcare
Too much body fat isn’t the problem — malfunctioning body fat is
Ross Pomeroy
Two men in lab coats studying a drawing of coronaviruses, specifically focusing on the possible connection between EBV infection and the development of an EBV vaccine.
Vaccines
Vaccine for common virus could prevent MS
Kristin Houser
An image of a human brain with a red spot representing speech-related neural processing.
Brain
This unique human brain structure may have given us speech
Mo Costandi
An image of blue tumor cells and green immune cells
Cancer
Existing heart drug may boost treatment for skin cancer
Kristin Houser
A bottle of pain relievers next to a tree.
Medicine
Scientists make pain relievers like Tylenol from pine trees rather than fossil fuels
Ross Pomeroy