China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases.
Paradromics, a Texas-based neurotechnology developer, has received FDA approval to begin the first long-term clinical trial of its brain–computer interface (BCI), targeting individuals who have lost the ability to speak due to
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Before a car crash in 2008 left Nancy Smith paralysed from the neck down, she found joy in playing the piano. Years later, she returned to music thanks to a brain–computer interface
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Jenny Button first imagined Emm during the COVID-19 lockdown while using an Oura ring and a Whoop monitoring band. She was gaining insights about her body but realized there was a glaring
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A fiber-rich diet may help the immune system mount a stronger attack against cancer by reshaping the gut microbiome and boosting the performance of key tumor-fighting cells, according to new research highlighted
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Hong Kong, the capitalist powerhouse often described as the “Mecca of Chinese capitalism,” is moving aggressively to reinvent itself as China’s premier scientific capital. Its skyline of luxury malls, financial towers, and
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A sweeping analysis of more than 600 ancient and modern dog and wolf skulls suggests that the extraordinary variety seen in today’s dog breeds began thousands of years earlier than the Victorian
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A dissolvable microrobot no larger than a grain of sand has been shown to swim through blood vessels in pigs and sheep, delivering drugs with pinpoint accuracy and offering a potential alternative
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A genetically modified pig kidney has survived more than two months inside a human recipient, marking a milestone that scientists say could reshape the future of organ transplantation. In findings published in
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Yoshua Bengio, one of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence, has become the first person to have their academic work cited more than one million times on Google Scholar, marking a
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A remote mountainside in southern Peru known as Monte Sierpe contains roughly 5,200 enigmatic holes, long puzzling archaeologists, but new research reported by Live Science offers clues to their purpose. The holes,
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In 1906, archaeologists uncovered a remarkable wig belonging to an Egyptian woman named Merit while excavating her tomb alongside her husband, Kha, in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes. The wig, made
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Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a rare iron tool used by the Celts to perform cranial surgery more than 2,300 years ago. The hand-held implement, discovered at Łysa Góra — a Celtic
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Scientists have uncovered the first member of a promising new class of antibiotics, and the discovery came as a surprise. The compound, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, demonstrates strong activity against drug-resistant bacteria,
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Just months after its highly anticipated debut, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is already reshaping astronomers’ understanding of galaxy evolution. Its massive camera, the largest digital imaging device ever built,
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James Watson, the American biologist co-credited with discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced Thursday. Watson spent much of his career
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