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 have sequenced proteins from fossils over 20 million years old, dramatically extending the molecular fossil record—and potentially opening the door to studying dinosaurs at the molecular level. As reported by Nature,
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In a groundbreaking development that could redefine the future of regenerative medicine, Chinese scientists have successfully regenerated damaged ear tissue in mice by reactivating what they call an “evolutionarily disabled genetic switch.”
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Sir Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, has expressed a private desire to move the company’s primary stock market listing from London to the United States, according to sources cited by The
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In a landmark move to promote legal identity, protect human rights, and strengthen governance across the region, governments from Asia and the Pacific have renewed their collective commitment to ensuring that every
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In a major leap for cancer diagnostics, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a highly sensitive blood test capable of detecting cancerous mutations years before symptoms emerge—potentially transforming early cancer detection
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In a groundbreaking experiment reported by Nature, researchers have successfully grown beating heart tissue containing human cells inside pig embryos — a major milestone in the emerging field of human–animal chimaera research.
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In a remarkable scientific advancement published in Nature, researchers have developed a brain–computer interface (BCI) that enables a man with a severe speech disability to speak expressively and even sing — using
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A groundbreaking study published in Neuron on June 5 reveals how the brain tells the difference between real and imagined images — a cognitive skill most of us take for granted but
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Delegates at a United Nations meeting hosted by UNESCO in Paris have released the world’s first global recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy and user rights in brain-interface technologies. The guidelines emerge
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In the sugarcane fields of El Salvador, men like Oscar rise before dawn to swing machetes under an unforgiving sun. For decades, this brutal labour has quietly claimed lives, not with accidents
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In Jakarta’s Jatinegara market, cages are stacked three metres high, holding bats, raccoon dogs, monkeys, and birds — all crammed together and sold as pets or food. The air is thick with
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Cyberbullying can trigger symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in teens and should be classified as an “adverse childhood experience” (ACE), according to a new study published in BMC Public Health. The
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Daiza Gordon watched her two younger brothers die from Hunter syndrome, a rare and incurable genetic disorder that mostly affects boys. It occurs when the body is missing a crucial enzyme. At
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When Bruce Levine and colleagues began developing engineered immune cells to fight cancer in the 1990s, their work was largely dismissed. “The wider community was very sceptical,” Levine, an immunologist at the
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A British woman awaiting a biopsy was left stunned after receiving a blunt and highly personal message reading, “Do you have cancer?” — a message apparently sent by Apple’s Siri without any
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