A new, gel-based wearable can catch infections before the naked eye can

In preliminary testing, the wearable identified infections in open wounds before they looked any different than uninfected wounds.

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Whose job is it to prevent Armageddon?

NASA is preparing to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid at 16,000 miles per hour, in a pioneering attempt to nudge it off course. But the yearlong mission scheduled to begin on Nov. 24 is raising an existential question for scientists and security experts: whose job is it to defend the planet against a possibly life-ending space rock if one was headed our way?

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Rolls-Royce’s All Electric Aircraft Claims World Speed Record

Rolls-Royce today shared that its all-electric plane has set three new world records.

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Foods Ranked Healthiest to the Worst in New ‘Food Compass’

Nutrition advice is confusing. A new study offers some fresh info to chew on.

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Paralysed mice walk again after gel is injected into spinal cord

A self-assembling gel that stimulates nerve regeneration has shown promise as a treatment for paralysis in mice.

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States are investigating how Instagram recruits and affects children

A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is investigating how Instagram attracts and potentially harms children and young adults. The probe follows revelations from a whistleblower about how Instagram's parent company Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has studied the risks of the photo-sharing app to its youngest users, including exacerbating body image issues for some teenage girls.

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Monkey-brain study with link to China's military roils top European university

A Chinese professor at the University of Copenhagen conducted genetic research with the Chinese military without disclosing the connection, the university told Reuters, in the latest example of how China's pursuit of military-civilian technology is tapping into Western academia in the strategically sensitive area of biotechnology.

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