How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re…

Rob Enderle’s Tech Industry Forecast for 2024

The end of the year is quickly approaching, which means it’s time to do the analyst thing and look ahead to the changes, trends, and anticipated disruptive products we are…

New therapeutic target for rare type of childhood epilepsy identified

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, UCL and MSD have identified a potential treatment target for a genetic type of epilepsy. Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies are…

French AI start-up Mistral AI raises 385 mn euros

Credit: CC0 Public Domain French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI announced Sunday it had raised 385 million euros ($414 million), becoming one of Europe’s two AI leaders. Founded in May…

Newest Alzheimer’s drug slows disease — but costs over $25,000 per year. Who will pay for it?

Majlis brings fossil fuel views into the open

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events For those who want Cop28 to agree to quit fossil…

Cell therapy appears safe and effective for lymphoma in remission

Credit: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine A study led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine suggests…

Some Seattle cancer center patients are receiving threatening emails after last month’s data breach

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center officials said a Nov. 19 hack…

What is Alterra, the UAE’s $30 billion green investment fund?

A big part of the $83 billion “mobilised” at Cop28, Alterra is primarily a profit-seeking fund with some development goals Perhaps the most eye-catching announcement of the first day of…

Downloading NASA’s Dark Matter Data from Above the Clouds

Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the University of Sydney. The system…