Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life.
But the CPR on these shows often depicts outdated practices and inaccuracies about who is most likely to experience…

Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life.
But the CPR on these shows often depicts outdated practices and inaccuracies about who is most likely to experience…

What if some of the alien worlds we’ve discovered are not actually planets at all?
Astronomers have spent years cataloging thousands of worlds orbiting distant stars, assuming that if something has the mass of a planet and exerts a gravitational…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.
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The patient: A 25-year-old man in Germany
The symptoms: The man was on a ski trip in November 2008 when an avalanche knocked him unconscious and left him buried under snow for 15 minutes. His body tissues were starved of oxygen while he was…

The Konya Basin, situated in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is exhibiting signs of rapid ground subsidence, despite being part of a broader region that has been uplifting for millions of years. New research based on satellite and ground measurements…

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A new hub at Wolverhampton University has been set up to look at how Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to improve research, business and culture.
The Digital Futures Lab will officially launch on 7 February and…

Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultra-processed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet – and this shift leads to improvements across several key markers related to how the body regulates appetite and…

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2025 Wasn’t the Hottest Year on Record. Earth Is Still Barreling to the Climate Brink
Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track…