Ransomware gangs target hospitals because downtime there is measured in lives, not money. Attacks are rising, defences are underfunded, and patients pay.
After two flat decades, electricity demand in rich countries is surging — driven by AI data centres. Grids, utilities and climate plans are scrambling to adapt.
A 91-year-old attacked by a raccoon discovered the rabies vaccine was not covered and cost hundreds. Here is what patients should know about post-exposure treatment, timing and coverage.
The same evolutionary choices that made the human brain powerful — its size, energy hunger and long development — also left it fragile. We explore the trade-offs and what they mean for mental health and ageing.
The sequence matters: material studied before sleep is retained better than the same material followed by wakefulness. How consolidation rewards the right order.
Studies keep finding plastic particles in bottled water. What those findings establish — and what they do not yet establish about health — is a more careful story.