We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
A “digital gut” predicted which probiotics and high‑fiber diets would take hold in people's guts and produce healthier outcomes.
Teens need eight to 10 hours of sleep each night. A large majority get less than that, according to a national survey of U.S. high school students.
A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own species.
Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in MRIs.
A DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.
Seven firms reported inconsistent results on the same sample, some over multiple tests. These gut microbe discrepancies could have health consequences.
Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.
During a test drive, the mobile lab van uncovered a drug-resistant HIV strain that sprung up after the ongoing war with Russia started.
A land dispute may have led to the massacre 3,000 years ago, suggesting Europe’s transition to farming wasn’t always peaceful.
