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A medical team at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an, China, surgically connected a man with liver failure to an external, genetically…

Nature, Published online: 06 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00397-zNature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.First up, a new AI…

X-rays show a 33-year old patients’ new lungs (left) and old lungs (right).Credit: Northwestern MedicineA 33-year-old man survived for 48 hours without his lungs, after a…

January 29, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmDoctors keep patient alive using ‘artificial lungs’ for two daysNovel artificial lungs could help keep people whose…

In 2008 Ecuador ratified a new national constitution with a radical addition. In the first national declaration of its kind, articles 71 to 74 of the…

It was an early morning in June 2024 and along the coast of Baja California in Mexico, scientists on the Pacific Storm research vessel were finishing…

Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready.…

CHICAGO – Given how early it happened and everything that happened afterward — all those abortive threats by the Milwaukee offense and tense outs recorded by…

Editor’s Note: Is anything ailing, torturing, or nagging at you? Are you beset by existential worries? Every Tuesday, James Parker tackles readers’ questions. Tell him about…