Science & Innovation

A 17-year-old built $170 AI glasses for blind and visually impaired people after watching his grandmother lose her sight and her independence.

A researcher has found a 1,700-year-old scrap of Homer’s Odyssey in a Dutch library, once part of a pocket-sized copy owned by someone in Egypt.

A chimpanzee cataract surgery has restored sight to a 54-year-old who went blind, after months of training him to present his eyes.

A psilocybin chemotherapy study found the psychedelic protected mice from lasting nerve damage through six rounds of treatment. Human trials are next.

A high school science teacher has found the first T. rex trackway ever recorded – four prints from a walk 66.5 million years ago.

A world-first burn treatment helped an 18-year-old student heal severe facial burns without skin grafts, offering hope for future patients.

The FDA expanded access to gene therapy for sickle cell disease, allowing children as young as 2 to receive the breakthrough treatment.

A 6-year-old girl with a rare inherited blindness regained vision through gene therapy, helping her see in low light again.

No woman aged 20-24 died of cervical cancer in England from 2020-2024, a Lancet study found, crediting the HPV vaccine for some 200 lives saved

Three teens won the Global Earth Prize for Plas-Stick, a tamarind powder that clumps microplastics in water so they can be lifted out with a magnet.