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.
For decades, autism research has focused almost entirely on children, early intervention, and education. Now, a rapidly growing population of older autistic adults is exposing a major blind spot in global health
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In a breakthrough that blurs the line between life and viral machinery, scientists have demonstrated that a giant virus can seize control of its host’s protein-production system, forcing cells to churn out
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The brain has long been considered an organ walled off from the rest of the body, shielded by layers of membranes called the meninges. Now, research published today in Nature reveals that
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In a dimly lit bar in Shanghai, customers don’t begin their evening by scanning a liquor menu. Instead, they extend their wrists across a wooden counter for a pulse diagnosis, an age-old
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Japan’s OHISAMA demonstration satellite is scheduled for launch in fiscal 2026, embarking on an ambitious mission to wirelessly deliver solar power from space to Earth for the first time. Unlike earlier experiments
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Children in England will be allowed to socially transition at school—with parental consent—under new government guidance designed to clarify schools’ legal duties, according to reporting by The Times UK. The guidance instructs
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Chinese researchers have developed an ultra-low-temperature lithium battery capable of operating reliably in extreme cold, marking a significant technological advance that could reshape how energy is stored and used in some of
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Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence that the first humans to inhabit the High Arctic were not merely surviving at the edge of the world, but actively transforming it. Newly discovered archaeological sites
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One high-profile example involves the TruDi Navigation System, a surgical guidance device used in sinus operations. In 2021, Acclarent, then a unit of Johnson & Johnson, announced it had added machine-learning software
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Nearly five decades into one of the most influential literary careers of the modern era, Haruki Murakami still begins every novel the same way: without a plan. As he explained in a
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Two studies published in Nature Health on 6 February reveal that cheap, readily available AI chatbots, or large language models (LLMs), can enhance clinical decision-making and even outperform trained doctors in controlled,
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In the fjords of northern British Columbia, humpback whales execute one of nature’s most extraordinary cooperative hunting techniques: bubble-net feeding. A group of whales dives beneath a shoal of herring, with one
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For years, cursive handwriting seemed destined for obscurity, a looping relic of a pre-digital age. Across classrooms in the United States, Finland and Switzerland, the flowing script of connected letters quietly disappeared
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In a feat that would once have belonged firmly to science fiction, a 33-year-old man has survived for 48 hours without lungs, kept alive by an external artificial organ while doctors raced
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Children are being exposed to pornography at alarmingly early ages, with studies showing that between 8% and 20% encounter explicit content before turning 10, and over 90% before 14. This phenomenon, reported
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