More than a billion people worldwide live with avoidable vision loss. Andrew Bastawrous is showing how technology and data ...

Animals don't experience the world passively. A hawk tilts its head to track prey. A person leans forward to read a sign.

Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a carbonized form so fragile that scholars ...

For generations, writing up a summary of a patient exam was a vital step for physicians trying to make an accurate diagnosis. What happens when A.I. does it for them? Credit...Illustration by Emmanuel ...

If you're part of Gen Z, chances are you rely on social media for news and current events. And if you're under 30, you're ...

A clever new brain imaging study shows our brains have to work harder when we read on screens rather than paper books.

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor function could be closer to a viable technology for ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Through a program offered with the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled and the Library of Congress, ...

A lost Philadelphia observatory once used to track the transit of Venus may be the place where the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time.

They are, rightly, some of the most read writings from the ancient world. The second category of writing was the 600-1,000 ...

Meta's new research turns brain activity into typed sentences with no implant, and the accuracy jump is the part that should ...