Nanotweezers that can pluck molecules from cells without killing them could enable real-time analysis of the insides of healthy and diseased cells. Read more

Data from three families suggest that in rare cases children can inherit mitochondria from their fathers. Read more

Climate change could shorten the time it talks for the world’s to receive half its annual precipitation from 12 days to 11 by 2100. Read more

Stone tools that are at least 30,000 years old suggest that people settled the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau earlier than scientists thought. Read more

While the number of reported measles cases has dropped 80 percent from 2000 to 2017, high profile outbreaks pushed the 2017 total up from 2016. Read more

An incurable neurodegenerative disease crippling North American deer, elk and moose may be thwarted by an organic soil compound. Read more

Even after spiderlings start hunting for themselves, they come to mom for milk. Read more

Astronomers used distant blazars to tally up all the stray photons roaming through space. Read more

Ancient Homo species spread advances in toolmaking far beyond East Africa. Read more

When implanted electrodes stimulated a brain region just behind the eyes, people’s spirits were raised immediately. Read more