New peer-reviewed research suggests Apple Watch could play a much bigger role in spotting atrial fibrillation. In a real-world study, researchers found that smartwatch-based monitoring caught far more ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Aaron J. Snoswell receives research ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into ...

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the ...

In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her ...

There's a good chance the same Wi-Fi router beaming Netflix to your living room is also capable of something far more surprising, like detecting your movement. When you walk around the kitchen, change ...

More than a century ago, a German neuroanatomist noticed his patient acting inordinately confused. After she died, Alois Alzheimer examined her brain and discovered amyloid-beta plaques and ...

Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead can harm the human brain and nervous system — especially in young children.

If you’ve ever sat waiting at the doctor’s office to give a blood sample, you might have wished there was a way to find the same information without needles. But for all the medical breakthroughs of ...

The death of Miller Gardner, the son of New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation last month with his family, is raising questions about the ...

Stanford Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications recently implemented iThenticate, a service that can detect the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research papers, to help faculty review ...