Science & Technology

A clinical study found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant’s brain was ‘plastic’ enough for the right hemisphere to acquire the language abilities ordinarily handled by …

A new study compares insect herbivore damage of modern-era plants with that of fossilized leaves from as far back as the Late Cretaceous period, nearly 67 million years ago.

A new study describes agricultural intensification strategies to allow Brazil, the world’s largest soybean exporter, to increase its soybean production by 36% in the next 15 years without further encroachment into the Amazonian rainforest. The study dr…

Clinical AI tools hold the promise to transform the practice of medicine, but lack of transparency in some tools is an ongoing challenge. One way to demystify black-box AI reasoning is the use of heat maps that ‘explain’ how an AI tool made a diagnosis…

A new advance overcomes present limitations in spatial transcriptomics with a DNA nanotechnology-driven method called ‘Light-Seq.’ Light-Seq allows researchers to ‘geotag’ the full repertoire of RNA sequences with unique DNA barcodes exclusive to a few…

Gray whales that migrate along the West Coast of North America continued to decline in number over the last 2 years, according to a new assessment. The population is now down 38 percent from its peak in 2015 and 2016, as researchers probe the underlyin…

Chronic, constant stress can increase lifetime risk of heart disease and stroke, but a new survey reveals regular mealtime with others could be a simple solution to help manage stress.

AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to remove discrimination from hiring are a growing market. These AI tools reduce race and gender to trivial data points, and often rely on personality analysis that is ‘automated pseudoscience’, argue researchers…