Fourteen Years to Make Light Climb Uphill
A Kyushu University team used a solid to convert visible light into ultraviolet. It was a great parting gift for their lab leader. Gabriela Silva Nobuo Kimizuka had 11 days…
When even a little stress may be bad
A bioscience lab set out to confirm that a little hardship is good for you. Tens of thousands of fruit flies had other ideas
Getting amputated limbs to grow back
Ken Muneoka spent three decades asking why mammals cannot regrow the limbs they lose, while all that time his own lungs were quietly filling with scars
From womb lining to joint cushion
The one tissue that rebuilds itself every month turned out to have something to say to the one that never does.
When the dead disagree
Novilara’s graves say one thing. Its bones, another. Zita Laffranchi, Marco Milella and their colleagues have spent 13 years learning to live with that