AI and brain implant enables ALS patient to easily converse with family ‘for 1st time in years’
A researcher describes the technology behind a device that translates thoughts into words for people who cannot otherwise speak.
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This could be your last chance to buy the ‘world’s first analog watch with clinically validated ECG’
The Withings ScanWatch Hybrid is now 20% off at Best Buy’s Clearance Sale.
‘Richly decorated weapon’ from Edo Japan unearthed in World War II rubble in Germany
The 17th-century sword was found in a cellar that was destroyed during World War II, but it’s unknown how it ended up there.
Fallout from NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor shower
A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the deliberate 2022 collision between the asteroid Dimorphos and NASA’s DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars. While these fragments…
People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat severe reactions
A new epinephrine nasal spray gives people a needle-free way to treat severe allergic reactions to food, insect venom and drugs.
Analyze This: Human brains can last thousands of years
Archaeologists, take note. There may be brains hiding inside excavated human skulls. New data show that human brains can resist decay for at least 12,000 years. When scientists find ancient preserved brains, they often call their finds unique or one-of-a-kind,…
Quantum compasses closer to replacing GPS after scientists squeeze key refrigerator-sized laser system onto a microchip
Quantum compasses need six atom interferometers, each the size of a small room, to work. But scientists have made crucial steps to miniaturizing these devices.
CRISPR could soon be used to edit fetal DNA — are we ready?
Medical anthropologist and bioethicist Julia Brown says scientists and nonscientists need to talk about whether and how we should use CRISPR to edit the fetal genome.
The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too
Images by the James Webb telescope of six Jupiter-sized worlds, one of which may have a moon-forming disk, reveal clues into how planets and stars form.
Earth from space: Massive landslide dams Canadian river, trapping endangered fish on the wrong side
A recent landslide along the banks of a river in British Columbia completely dammed the waterway, leading to evacuation warnings and potentially dooming an endangered fish population trapped on the wrong side of the debris.
