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  1. Genetics

    A marine parasite’s mitochondria lack DNA but still churn out energy

    Missing mitochondrial DNA inside a parasitic marine microbe turned up inside the organism’s nucleus.

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  2. Archaeology

    Excavations show hunter-gatherers lived in the Amazon more than 10,000 years ago

    Early foragers may have laid the foundation for farming’s ascent in South America’s tropical forests.

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  3. Particle Physics

    This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted

    Scientists have made the first direct observations of an exotic type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    A neural implant can translate brain activity into sentences

    With electrodes in the brain, scientists translated neural signals into speech, which could someday help the speechless speak.