By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – Hello Health Tour Readers! Sometimes science is just so cool. Today, we’re reporting on a study that’s doing what H.G. Wells predicted 100 years ago in “The Invisible Man.” We’re also reporting on a new use of artificial intelligence that could improve heart failure diagnosis in pregnant women, and the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel “The Invisible Man,” the hero invents a serum that controls how the cells in his body bend light, making them transparent. More than 100 years later, scientists have… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An artist’s concept image of a superconductor floating in the air. | Source: ktsimage via Getty Images Scientists have found a fundamental process required for superconductivity to occur at higher temperatures than previously thought. It could be a small… Read More »
16-year-old Katya Kondragunta has already experienced two disasters due to the impact of climate change. First came the wildfires in California in 2020. Ash and smoke forced his family to stay in their home in the Bay Area city of Fremont for weeks. They later moved to Prosper, Texas; last summer here dealt with record-breaking… Read More »
American oil and gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times as much gas as the powerful heat-trapping gas methane the government thinks is causing $9.3 billion in climate damage annually, according to a comprehensive new study. But since more than half of those methane emissions come from a very small number of oil… Read More »
A community of detectives hunting down errors in scientific research has sent shockwaves through some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world and the scientific community at large. High-profile cases of alleged image manipulation in articles written by the former president of Stanford University and leaders of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Why women are at higher risk of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis is a long-standing medical mystery, and a research team at Stanford University may now be one step closer… Read More »
Thousands of images of child sexual abuse are hidden at the core of popular AI image generators, according to a new report that calls on companies to take action to fix a harmful flaw in the technology they produce. The same images have made it easy for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit images… Read More »
In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery of creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the paper and assembled a team to investigate what went wrong. Retractions… Read More »
Wildfires in some parts of the western United States may be converting a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart, according to a new study; This could potentially endanger first responders and surrounding communities. The research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, detected high levels of the hazardous metal hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6,… Read More »