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.
Scientists are making striking progress in applying gene-editing technology to one of medicine’s toughest frontiers: the human brain. According to a recent report in Nature, breakthroughs in mice suggest that CRISPR-based tools
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For the first time, scientists have captured real-time footage of a human embryo latching onto a lifelike replica of the uterine lining — a hidden but crucial milestone in early development. The
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A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has used artificial intelligence to create two new antibiotics capable of killing dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, in laboratory and animal
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A major international survey has found that more than half of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) said it was unhelpful, worsened their quality of life, and was often administered without full
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Distinguished liver cancer expert Feng Gensheng has returned to China after a 40-year scientific career in North America, stepping down from his position at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to
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A major new study tracking nearly 80,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has revealed that people who avoid meat may significantly reduce their risk of developing various cancers.
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Indigenous scholars from settler-colonial countries including Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, Australia, and the United States have called for a fundamental shift in how scientific institutions engage with Indigenous peoples and knowledge. Writing
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Astronomers have captured a tantalizing glimpse of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — the nearest star system to Earth — potentially setting a new record for
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As heatwaves become more frequent and intense due to climate change, researchers are urging a fundamental shift in how societies prepare for extreme heat. A new analysis published in Nature argues that
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In a dramatic and unconventional move to curb China’s largest-ever chikungunya outbreak, scientists in the southern province of Guangdong are deploying swarms of “elephant mosquitoes” — giant, non-biting insects whose larvae feast
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Researchers have found that merely seeing someone who appears sick can activate the body’s immune system, as if preparing for infection. The study, published on July 28 in Nature Neuroscience, reveals how
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For anyone who has ever felt groggy and disoriented after hitting the snooze button, science may now have an answer for why. A groundbreaking study published today in Current Biology has revealed
More A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has revealed a surprising double-edged role of human-specific genes. These genes,
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Cancer is rapidly becoming a manageable condition rather than a fatal diagnosis, thanks to a wave of transformative medical breakthroughs, according to Professor Sir Stephen Powis, the outgoing National Medical Director of
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A sweeping new genomic study published in Nature has uncovered compelling evidence that many of the most notorious infectious diseases—such as plague and leprosy—made the leap to humans only after ancient communities
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