Science

A battery-free pacemaker powered by the motion of a beating heart could one day eliminate the repeated replacement surgeries faced by many patients with implanted...

A sweeping review of artificial intelligence in American medicine has delivered a stark verdict: most AI and machine-learning devices cleared for patient care have never...

Wildfires May Turn Drinking Water Toxic by Releasing Arsenic From Burned Landscapes Wildfires are increasingly being recognized not only as threats to forests, homes and...

A study from researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has identified a previously unrecognized way viral infections can weaken...

Emotion words may be easier to understand as points on a map than as isolated labels, according to a new study that used GPT-4 to...

A dramatic transformation is unfolding along Greenland’s eastern coast, where warming seas and retreating summer sea ice have opened a new feeding ground for thousands...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have identified three distinct health trajectories followed by people during the five years after a heart attack, using a...

A new class of organic semiconducting polymers could give electronics a powerful new way to control electron spin—without relying on bulky magnets or rare magnetic...

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory suggests that the thymus may solve one of immunology’s most difficult problems using a biological equivalent of...

British zoos and aquariums hold more than 2,600 vertebrate species, yet only a small fraction of these animals are native to the United Kingdom or...

Wildfires are often described as disasters of flame, smoke and ash, but their effects do not end when the last hot spot is extinguished. Along...

A genetic tool originally developed to estimate a person’s risk of developing type 1 diabetes could transform the diagnosis of diabetes in young people, according...