AI voice agents helped improve accuracy of blood pressure measurements in older adults
Artificial intelligence (AI) voice agents helped older adults with high blood pressure to accurately report their blood pressure…
Northeastern Summer Jobs Program Honors WSJ Columnist
For 15 years, Jonathan Clements wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal extolling the virtues of investing…
Wooden walls can withstand 100 kilonewtons of pressure, research finds
Swiss researchers have overturned the assumption that windowed timber walls offer no structural support after they proved that…
Cheerful Music Could Help People Get Over Car Sickness, New Study Shows
By Getty Images for Unsplash+ Listening to happy tunes helped study participants with motion sickness get over their…
Novonesis and Novo Nordisk will explore new solutions to
Novonesis and Novo Nordisk join forces in a new research collaboration to explore solutions that seek to preserve…
CRISPR used in landmark treatment to fix misspelling in baby’s genome
For the first time, scientists say they have reached into the genome of a severely ill child and…
Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce
The Brief August 5, 2025 What to know about a ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s shift from MAGA,…
What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? — Harvard Gazette
A recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for regulations to protect customers’ personal…
German scientists debunk 200-year-old theory on why ice is slippery
Researchers in Germany have challenged a 200-year-old assumption and revealed that pressure and friction are not responsible for…
Meet the Uzbek scientist pioneering genetic breakthroughs in cotton, wheat and global food security
By Dilbar Primova Published on 02/09/2025 – 15:00 GMT+2 •Updated 15:13 ADVERTISEMENT Uzbekistan’s Minister of Agriculture, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, has…
Targeting metabolic reprogramming to overcome immune suppression in head and neck cancer
Head and neck cancer remains a major global health challenge, ranking among the six most common cancers worldwide…
New technology embeds unique genetic identifiers in engineered cells
Genetically engineered cell lines used in biomedical research have long been prone to misidentification and unauthorized use, wasting…