Economists find companies’ adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor.

Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.

An exercise physiologist explains how it’s a problem of communication between your brain and your body.

HPV vaccines will yield significant reductions in throat and mouth cancers in the US, but not for about 25 years, a new study shows.

Analysis of Medicare data finds location matters, not just past health behavior.

Exceedingly hard or tough foods might have given Homo floresiensis (nicknamed the Hobbit) a sore jaw. But stone tools may have made chewing easier.

Large-scale video campaign allowed physicians and public health messengers to encourage staying home over the 2020 holidays.

Vocal imitation is a key part of how humans learn to speak. New research shows that bats babble to learn and use baby talk to teach, just like people do.

System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.