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The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result in irreversible tissue damage. Current neural probes are made out of silicon, a brittle material ...
Jan 14, 2026
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AI is moving quickly into health care, bringing potential benefits but also possible pitfalls such as bias that drives unequal care and burnout of physicians and other health care workers. It remains undecided how it should ...
Jan 13, 2026
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A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Jan 12, 2026
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In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California's Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn't afford to see a doctor.
Jan 8, 2026
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Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver.
Dec 11, 2025
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In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning ...
Dec 2, 2025
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In an important step toward visual prostheses, biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as demonstrated by a team at TU Wien.
Nov 19, 2025
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Starting their period is a big deal for adolescents. It marks a turning point in their lives where puberty becomes the new normal and change is happening all over their bodies. Undoubtedly, adolescents are going to have questions, ...
Nov 18, 2025
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Conventional wearable ultrasound sensors have been limited by low power output and poor structural stability, making them unsuitable for high-resolution imaging or therapeutic applications.
Nov 12, 2025
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What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips in the brain that electrically stimulate a precise target, through a simple injection in the arm? This may someday help treat deadly or debilitating brain diseases, while ...
Nov 5, 2025
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