Obesity does not simply weigh on the body; it weighs on the lungs. Excess fat around the chest wall and abdomen stiffens the respiratory system, narrows breathing reserves, and makes every breath ...

Artificial intelligence systems that analyze networks have long been built on a comforting assumption: that things which appear together tend to be alike. In a social network, friends share interests; ...

Social isolation has long been recognized as a modifiable risk factor for chronic disease, with documented links to ...

Imagine an engineer who begins her morning inside a fully immersive virtual factory, rearranging production lines with a ...

European paediatric medicine is preparing for one of the most significant organisational milestones in its recent history.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA, remains one of the most formidable adversaries in modern ...

Disagreement is usually treated as a bug in artificial intelligence. When a machine learning system looks at the same patient ...

Cameras have long dominated the world of human activity recognition, powering everything from fall-detection systems for ...

A humble herb that flavors sushi and traditional East Asian dishes may hold unexpected secrets to a longer, leaner life. In a study published in the journal Biogerontology, researchers in China report ...

In a finding that could reshape how researchers probe one of medicine’s most fundamental processes, a team at Purdue University has concluded that deliberately injecting healthy volunteers with a p ...

Orofacial clefts, which include cleft lip and cleft palate, are among the most common birth defects worldwide, affecting ...

Continuous glucose monitors strapped to competitive endurance athletes have revealed something striking: when the starting ...