The Petersburg Post

Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 - Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans. Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday. The results suggest countries should roll out programmes taking advantage of AI's scanning power to ease the workload of short-staffed radiologists, the Swedish lead researchers said. ...

Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 - Humans can't live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.  Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal  Med , surgeons describe how they removed a patient's infected lungs and built "artificial lungs" to keep him alive until a double lung transplantation was available. The work shows how the approach may serve as a life-saving bridge to ...

Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 - Polar bears are the poster children of climate change—and for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate warms. But some polar bears, it seems, are far more resilient than we realized: new research suggests that in one region, the bears are adapting to the declining sea ice. Researchers took more than 1,000 body ...