Articles by

Grace Huckins

The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

Our world is populated by hundreds of thousands of cyborgs. Some are Parkinson’s patients, who can shut...

A Little-Known Inflammatory Disease Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Vexas would have been discovered a long time ago if it were a garden variety genetic disease,...

Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat

Like much of the internet, PubPeer is the sort of place where you might want to be anonymous....

There’s a New Explanation for ‘Genetic’ Trait Pairs: Your Parents

Border and his colleagues are not the first to raise the possibility of spurious genetic correlations. When designing...

For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers

Watching the Alzheimer’s research world from the outside over the past two years has felt like a...

A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience

So neuroscientists use an approach called “dimensionality reduction” to make such visualization possible—they take data from thousands...

For Some Patients, Long Covid Symptoms Mask Something Else

It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then...

The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action

And co-benefits make a lot of sense: People might reasonably feel more empowered to affect their own...