Science

Patients with heart scarring and moderately reduced pumping function got no overall benefit from an implanted defibrillator, according to the CMR GUIDE trial published in JAMA on Aug. 28. The trial's…

A very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet raised liver insulin sensitivity two to three times more than a Mediterranean or a very-low-fat diet in people who lost the same amount of weight on all three,…

A shorter, response-tailored course of antibiotics for a serious heart infection left patients a median of 13 more days alive and off antibiotics over six months than the standard four-to-six-week…

A group at EPFL reports gallium nitride diodes, grown on silicon wafers, that block more than 3.9 kilovolts before breaking down while their on-resistance, measured per unit of chip area, stays as…

The case for DNA as an archive has been the same for a decade. It is denser than anything engineered, it keeps for centuries in the cold and the dark, and it draws no power while it sits there. The…

Researchers have assembled near-complete genomes for eight closely related species of Myotis bats and report that the group adapts to DNA viruses and to RNA viruses in two different ways, in a paper…

Sequence a bacterium and you get a parts list with most of the labels missing. Streptococcus pneumoniae, the organism responsible for a great deal of pneumonia and meningitis, encodes a broad array…

Erik Tihelka was leafing through a secondhand Russian paleontology textbook when a line drawing stopped him: a small, many-legged animal from a shale bed in West Texas, labeled a crustacean. He…

The chimneys at Lost City are the wrong color. Where the black smokers strung along the mid-ocean ridges build dark spires out of metal sulfide, this field on a bald dome of mantle rock in the…

The Food and Drug Administration approved Mimrylo (rusfertide) on Aug. 28 for adults with polycythemia vera, a rare blood disorder in which the body produces too many red blood cells. The approval…

A rubidium atom interferometer aboard the China Space Station has completed an in-orbit quantum test of the weak equivalence principle, the rule that objects fall at the same rate regardless of what…

Blood thinners lowered the rate of serious cardiovascular events in people with atrial fibrillation whose stroke risk is classed as intermediate, according to results from the SINGLE-AF trial…