Latest Health Stories
Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts
Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct the World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant
Camera-Equipped Glasses Can Analyze the Expression of the Person You’re Talking To
Spray-Can Cooling Foams Keep Japan Comfortably Chilled in This Summer Heat
Lab Builds a Fully Functioning Artificial Small Intestine
Drink Up! Red Wine Can Counteract the Negative Aftereffects of Space Travel
Video: Japanese Silicone-Skinned Dental Patient-Bot Flinches and Gags Just Like a Real Person, Only Much Creepier
An Ultra-Low-Calorie, Low-Carb Diet is Sufficient to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes, Study Finds
Saliva Science: New Forensics Tool Can Determine a Person’s Age from a Spit Sample
The World’s First Self-Propelled Endoscopy Device ‘Swims’ the Entire Digestive Tract in Mere Hours
Analytical Method Used for Stock Market Helps Pinpoint A Possible Achilles Heel for HIV
Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory
How Scientists Ship Snowmen to Bahrain, Chill Beer and Keep Vaccines Cool
Drug Suppresses Recall of Bad Memories, Leaves Non-Bad Memories Intact
We Need a League Of Performance-Enhanced Athletes
2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs
Newly Found Species of Bacteria Lives On Pure Caffeine
IBM’s Watson Makes the Move From Answering Trivia Questions to Making Medical Diagnoses
With Electrical Stimulation to the Spinal Cord, Paralyzed Man Walks Again
A Tiny Turbine in Your Veins Could Harvest Power From Your Blood Flow
‘Concrete Canvas’ Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent
Patient Elects to Have Hand Amputated to Make Way for a Bionic One
Controversial Blood Test To Predict How Long You Will Live
New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
Worm Regenerates a Whole New Body From a Single Cell
Did Stem Cell Therapy Repair Bartolo Colon’s Broken Pitching Arm?
Computer Scientists Induce Schizophrenia in a Neural Network, Causing it to Make Ridiculous Claims
Transfusion of Synthetic Blood Saves Woman’s Life
Controversial Ideas: Does Semen Act As an Antidepressant to the Recipient?
“Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing During CPR
In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Made of Jell-O and Foil Detects Acute Pancreatitis
Study Shows How Bacteria Could Generate Radio Waves
New Fog-Harvesting Devices Could Provide Clean Drinking Water for the World’s Poor
A Synthetic Brain Synapse Is Constructed From Carbon Nanotubes
To Curb Malaria, Researchers Create Gene That Rapidly Spreads Through Mosquito Populations
Now In Production: Human Skin Grown In a Robot-Controlled German Skin Factory
GPS- and WiFi-Enabled Asthma Inhaler Sends Epidemiology Data As It Helps You Breathe
Science Deals: 23andMe Lowers Personal Genome Scan From $200 to $0, Today Only
Six Dream Projects of the 3-D Printing Pioneers
Rinderpest, the Cattle-Killing Plague, to Become the Second Officially-Eradicated Scourge
FYI: Can Scientists Measure Happiness?
Genetically Modified Cows Produce Milk Akin To Human Milk
Plastic Beads Fight Cancer By Cutting Blood Flow
Video: Turning A Massive Touchscreen Display Into a Multitouch Microscope
Moveable Beasts: Tracking Winged Migrations To Predict Weather, Stop Disease, and Save Species
Silicon Chips Wired With Nerve Cells Could Enable New Brain/Machine Interfaces
Mind-Controlled Musical Instrument Helps Paralysis Patients Rehabilitate
New Silkworm Dye Method Could Help Build Silks With Medicinal Properties
Experimental “Body Reboot” Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes
A Pacemaker for Your Gut Feigns Fullness, Tricking You Into Eating Less
World’s First Tissue-Engineered Urethras Deemed a Success
Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
Video: New Microscope Produces 3-D Movies of Live Cells In Action
Video: ‘Optical Tweezers’ App Lets Users Manipulate Microscopic Particles With an iPad
World’s Most Powerful Optical Microscope Lets Researchers See Inside Viruses
Science Tricks the Brain into Experiencing Having Three Arms
Could Scientists Really Create a Zombie Virus
Large New NIH Study Finds That Cell Phone Use Does Affect Brain Activity
This Is The Smallest Computer Ever
Implant Micro-Worms Under Your Skin To Monitor Your Long-Term Health
Researching Stress, Scientists May Have Accidentally Found Baldness Cure
Your Nose Could Use Quantum Tunneling to Distinguish Between Similar Molecules
Fragment of Human DNA Found in Genome of Gonorrhea Bacteria