Sandeep Jauhar: How do emotions affect the heart? Cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar explains a case where deep grief caused takotsubo cardiomyopathy—also called "broken heart syndrome." He examines the connection emotions have with our most vital organ. Sanaz Meshkinpour
Merck to seek emergency authorization for pill it says cuts COVID-19 effects The pharmaceutical company announced that its experimental pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people infected with the coronavirus. The findings are not peer reviewed.
Shadowed By Controversy, NASA Won't Rename New Space Telescope Some scientists are calling on NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope, arguing that it honors someone who was complicit in persecuting gay government workers. NASA says the name will stay. Nell Greenfieldboyce
New Study Finds More Than A Third Of COVID-19 Patients Have Symptoms Months Later The symptoms, such as headache, fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, persist or recur months after diagnosis, far more often than they do for the flu, researchers say. Scott Neuman
Gene-Editing Experiment Improves Sight In Patients With Impaired Vision For the first time, scientists are reporting they restored vision to people blinded by a rare genetic disorder by infusing the revolutionary gene-editing technique directly into cells inside the body. Rob Stein
How Our Brains Create Meaning From The Sounds Around Us How do our brains create meaning from the sounds around us? That is the question at the heart of a new book from neuroscientist Nina Kraus, called Of Sound Mind. Ashley Brown
A Dead Wild Male Ocelot May Still Have Offspring, If Scientists' Efforts Succeed South Texas is the one place in the U.S. where ocelots breed in the wild. After the death of a male, scientists tried something novel: artificial insemination from a wild ocelot into one at a zoo. Dominic Anthony Walsh
Birds Thrived Where Humans Feared To Tread During The Pandemic, Scientists Say A new study shows that as people mostly remained indoors during lockdowns last year, many bird species found less noisy and polluted cities more inviting. Scott Neuman
Mars Had Liquid Water On Its Surface. Here's Why Scientists Think It Vanished A new study indicates that the relatively low mass of Mars allowed most of its water to be lost to space billions of years ago, rather than retained on its surface. Scott Neuman
Ahead Of Climate Talks, China Vows To Stop Building Coal Power Plants Abroad The announcement provides needed momentum for global climate change negotiations in November, but coal power is expected to keep growing within China itself. Lauren Sommer
