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- An AI that forecasts vital signs could get patients off the IV drip sooner Many hospital patients stay on intravenous antibiotics longer than they need to. A new system predicts who is stable enough to switch to pills and puts them at the top of the doctors' list.
- Pull a tooth from this fish and it grows replacements three times faster Cichlid fish replace their teeth all their lives. Scientists plucked some teeth and watched the body's repair crew spring into action within an hour.
- Mars's spin speeds up and slows down on a mysterious 26-year rhythm Nearly 50 years of radio signals from Mars spacecraft show the planet doesn't turn at a perfectly steady pace, and nobody knows why yet.
- Trash that recycling plants reject could become strong, compostable plastic Researchers turned mushy paper pulp from unrecyclable household waste into a filler that made plant-based plastic stiffer and let it break down in compost within a month.
- Radar satellites can now watch emperor penguins through the Antarctic night For the first time, scientists tracked penguin colonies all year from space. They found the birds stay put in winter, then roam for kilometers once spring arrives.
- Meet Sniffbot, a robot that smells with a real locust antenna By pairing an insect's super-sensitive antenna with a small robot that sniffs the air, researchers built a machine that can track down a smell in still indoor air.
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