Technology

It works with radio waves, similar to Wi-Fi routers, and can identify stages of sleep with 80% accuracy.

Named Alesi by scientists, it is the most complete extinct ape skull known in the fossil record, which belonged to a gibbon-like infant.

They are only 12 light years distant, and two of them, in the habitable zone, could contain liquid water.

On August 17, 1601, the self-taught jurist and mathematician Pierre de Fermat was born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. On the 410th anniversary of his birth, the Google search engine paid tribute to him with a personalized 'doodle' that transforms the Google logo into a mathematical formula. Specifically, it referred to "Fermat's last theorem", which remained indecipherable until 1995.

Despite the misgivings it arouses among certain groups, the first genetically modified animal suitable for human consumption can now be purchased in Canada.

A study shows that the photos we post on social media can be used as markers of depression.

A protein linked to diabetes acts like prions, the infectious proteins that cause Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Chicago scientists use gene therapy-based grafts to reduce obesity and diabetes in mice.