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Some children who later developed cancer had antibodies against DNA repair proteins years before their diagnosis. In a small study of 59 children,...

Nokia's 6300 arrived nearly 20 years ago, the same month Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. Its browser never went beyond TLS 1.0, which the article says...

Satellite phone links are already handling everyday connectivity in Latin America, not just emergencies. Chile's D2D usage has grown about 2.4 times...

Models of this lava world, TOI-561 b, predicted a bare molten rock. As Dr Anjali Piette put it, its air should have been lost billions of years...

Google's updated policy lets Gmail, Photos, and Drive help shape personalized ads when you connect those apps to other Google services. The change...

Sleep scores are estimates, and the accuracy evidence is mixed.

• Trackers estimate sleep from movement and heart data rather than measuring it...

Agile helps medical device teams deliver faster, but speed alone doesn't make software safe.

• Velocity hides risk: Sprint velocity tracks how fast...

The FDA's document on individualized human genome-editing products is marked not for implementation and contains non-binding recommendations. It is...

The Masimo Watch W1 is described as giving accurate photoplethysmography-based breathing-rate estimates in healthy adults during spontaneous...

The FDA warned Amgen that a promotional video for its colorectal cancer drug Vectibix was misleading, saying it highlighted benefits while...

Wearables and AI could use continuous heart rate, sleep and movement data to flag training patterns that may raise injury risk. They could catch...

Google's new Genie 4 lets users create explorable worlds from text prompts and move through them with keyboard controls.

• Live edits: Typing...

A wearable that shines light into the skin may pick up blood-flow and tissue-activity patterns that relate to stress. In a study of 132 adults in 19...

B. Braun and the FDA notified customers of an issue with Streamline bloodline sets that could cause connectors to detach or leak. The available text doesn't say what affected customers should do, so check the official recall notice directly.

Can regular exercise offset risks of 5-6 hours sleep?

A Vitality analysis of over 150,000 adults found "super sleepers" under 60 who avoid typical...

The Fitbit Edge's seven-day battery and slim screen sound ideal—until you enable always-on display, which slashes runtime to two days and leaves the screen feeling sluggish.

• A lightweight random forest on summary features from TESS light curves flags transit candidates at scale.
• Interpretability audit revealed the top...

CRISTAL has completed assembly and solar array deployment checks, now advancing to environmental qualification testing to prove it can endure launch...

Starlink Mobile is now live nationwide in Brazil for 50M Vivo customers, with 7M phones already connected for messaging and apps in dead...

Could a planet form near a supermassive black hole?

Simulations reveal the outer regions of active galactic nuclei disks behave like giant...