It sounds like pure science fiction. Remove a healthy human head from a dying body, connect it to a different healthy body, and bring "the person" back to consciousness. Equal parts Frankenstein and ...

From the column: "Trump’s administration has taken unprecedented action to recast scientific discovery as something sinister ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people, a team at the ...

Harvard leads the world in science and in philosophizing on how to make the world a better place. It’s time to make metascience a bigger part of the conversation.

In the early noughties, as Google rose to challenge Microsoft and Netscape’s dominance, statisticians noted and joked about a ...

Boston Scientific has put forward pivotal clinical data from a head-to-head trial showing its pulsed field ablation approach for treating an irregular heartbeat can operate on par with traditional ...

University of Maine researchers developed a new process to make HBL, a key ingredient in many medicines, from renewable ...

Carol Miranda paid a surgeon in Los Angeles thousands of dollars last year to permanently change her eye color from dark brown to hazel. Miranda, a now 49-year-old sales associate, had dreamed since ...

Membrane proteins are crucial for numerous biological processes and serve as important drug targets. For decades, scientists ...