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The algorithm, trained on 42,000 patient CT scans, outperformed six radiologists in determining whether patients had cancer. It detected 5 percent more cancers and cut false positives by 11 percent from reviewing a single scan.

Astronomers have suspected for some time that the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds collided in the recent past. The Gaia space telescope provides striking new evidence for a head-on collision.

John Urschel, a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics and a former professional football player with the Baltimore Ravens, recalls how his love for logic and problem-solving never received the kind of motivational support his football coaches gave him.

Technology could one day be used to help people who can’t talk to communicate.

Physicist Christopher Monroe, CEO of quantum computing startup IonQ, notes that the field will see many incremental advances but warns that too much hype risks disillusionment that may slow the progress.

Networking is a crucial skill for all scientists. Here are some tips for those who struggle to make it work.

Sodium-based batteries hold promise as a solid-state alternative to lithium-ion batteries, but recharging tended to break them down quickly. A flexible anode that swells and shrinks with repeated charging could change that.

The formidable Tudor mathematician never published his work. Georgina Ferry relishes a fresh biography

"Over the next million years, internal rifting is projected to cleave the platypus into a species of duck and a fairly large rodent."

Revival of disembodied organs raises a slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness.