News

  1. Neuroscience

    Rats can navigate mazes, even when blind

    Blind rats can learn to navigate with a compass and microchip prosthetic wired into their brains. Similar devices may one day help humans have super senses.

    By Ashley Yeager
  2. Health & Medicine

    Injured baby hearts may be coaxed to regenerate

    Shots of a growth factor protein reduce cell death in infant mice with heart damage.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Anthropology

    ‘Little Foot’ pushes back age of earliest South African hominids

    Study suggests Lucy’s species had a South African foil nearly 3.7 million years ago.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Earth

    Plate loss gave chain of Pacific islands and seamounts a bend

    The sinking Izanagi tectonic plate may have rerouted the mantle flow beneath the Pacific, halting the Hawaiian hot spot.