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Researchers have developed a soft, flexible artificial skin made of silicone and electrodes. The skin's system of soft sensors and actuators enable the artificial skin to conform to the exact shape of a wearer's wrist. Strain sensors continuously measure the skin's deformation so that the haptic feedback can be adjusted in real time to produce a sense of touch that's as realistic as possible.

An international research team has shown that today's Iranian population is composed of partially highly heterogeneous ethnic groups, exhibiting a high degree of genetic variation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) appears to detect diseases from medical imaging with similar levels of accuracy as health-care professionals, according to research led by the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

People - or more specifically just Swedes - are more like chimpanzees than previously known. This is indicated in a genetic mapping of one thousand Swedish individuals, where new DNA sequences that should be included in the reference genome have been identified.

The pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii is one of three highest priority pathogens identified by WHO (World Health Organisation) for which new antibiotics are urgently needed. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the functions and structures of key enzymes in the assembly of an antibiotic with activity against the pathogen, which could enable more effective versions to be created.

A group of researchers in Japan has developed a new type of processor known as PAXEL, a device that can potentially bypass Moore's Law and increase the speed and efficiency of computing.

When hospitals are hacked, the public hears about the number of victims - but not what information the cybercriminals stole. New research is the first to uncover the specific data leaked through hospital breaches, sounding alarm bells for nearly 170 million people.

In a new paper assessing whether machines will one day become truly artificially intelligent, researchers conclude that that true, human-level intelligence remains a long way off, but their new paper explores how computers could begin to evolve learning in the same way as natural organisms did - with implications for many fields, including artificial intelligence.

Novel data and analytic platform built to accelerate the development of drugs by addressing the need to better characterize rare diseases.

Researchers used a multi-fractal analysis technique to describe the patterns produced by bacterial sliding movement. The bacteria don't move independently but push each other within the colony by dividing and competing for the same space.