ApoB testing outperforms traditional cholesterol measures in preventing heart attacks and strokes while remaining ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are creating virtual replicas of patients’ hearts so they can test how to fix a life-threatening irregular heartbeat before treating the real organ.

Leah Solivan built Taskrabbit from a recession-era idea into one of the companies that helped define the gig economy. Then she sold it to Ikea in what she describes as a tearful, unanimous board vote.

While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists ...

A new computer program allows scientists to design synthetic DNA segments that indicate, in real time, the state of cells. It will be used to screen for anti-cancer or viral infections drugs, or to ...

Perplexity Computer, as explained by David Ondrej, is a cloud-hosted AI system designed to handle complex tasks such as web automation, file generation and software integration. Its architecture ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Image of the Throne Toilet Computer perched on the side of a toilet. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget) Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...