Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

It turns out you can quite literally see an analog signal if the conditions are right—and you look closely enough.

While Frank Zappa was vocal about his dislike for The Velvet Underground, Sterling Morrison perhaps had the last laugh in a damning indictment of his work.

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A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

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A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

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Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...