How the decline in global cloudiness affects the Earth’s “energy imbalance” – the difference between absorbed solar energy and heat radiated into space.

The FDA's move to incorporate Bayesian statistical methods into clinical trials of drugs and biologics garnered special treatment in JAMA this week. JAMA published three perspectives -- two welcoming ...

Background Colombia’s prolonged armed conflict has significantly impacted public health. This study constructs a municipal-level armed conflict intensity index for Colombia (2008–2019) and assess ...

Farming technology has greatly benefited ag for years, and the beef industry is starting to use some of these methods.

Stanford University’s Machine Learning (XCS229) is a 100% online, instructor-led course offered by the Stanford School of Engineering. The program teaches profe ...

The tools meant to detect microplastics—lab gloves—might be quietly skewing the results. A new University of Michigan study suggests that nitrile and latex gloves, commonly used in labs, could be ...

Objective: To evaluate the impact of an intensive outpatient clinic (IOC) model on health care utilization and costs among medically and behaviorally complex adults enro ...

Researchers found that widely deployed smart meters pose a “massive” cybersecurity risk, potentially enabling data manipulation, energy theft, and service disruption. They propose a new detection ...

Households where income is less than 60% of the median national average, after housing costs, are considered to be living in ...

Recent announcements by the US Government linking paracetamol use during pregnancy to autism in offspring highlight the risks of misinterpreting observational research to inform policy; this is a ...

OLYMPIC cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is championing a drive to test 25,000 men for prostate cancer – as experts say the dreaded ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, which lasted from about 630 to 540 million years ago, has long puzzled scientists studying the planet’s magnetic history.