Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume or forced vital capacity was related to mortality. 185 years later, spirometry is ...

DeepSeek, until recently a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has made itself the talk of the tech industry after it rolled out a series of large language models that outshone ...

Some types of flu can make you very ill, while others cause milder symptoms. Read on to learn about the different types of flu. Flu, or influenza, is a contagious respiratory infection caused by ...

This system is designed for brief differences in wheel speed, but different tire sizes mean your wheels are constantly running at different speeds, which isn't sustainable. Worse yet, differing ...

Though metrics such as GDP and job growth show a healthy economy, these seven charts offer insight into why Americans are still feeling crunched. Inflation has cooled significantly since its red ...

Kiss surges to No. 2 on Billboard's Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart as “I Was Made For Lovin’ ... [+] You” matches the band's all-time peak on the ranking. Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley ...

To find the location of a marsquake, we have to rely on measuring the difference in arrival time between different kinds of vibrations (called P and S waves). This lets us calculate the distance ...

More generally, because we’re different. Or, tautologically, because we’re not American. But it all sounds unsatisfying, defensive, unpersuasive. If we resist absorption into the American ...

“A Different Man” is an urban parable, even an urban myth if one thinks in classical terms—Midas, Tantalus, Oedipus, Prometheus. Regrets, they’ve had a few. So does the protagonist of ...