Sam Miller

To Fix a Patient's Irregular Heartbeat, Doctors First Tested Its Digital 'Twin'

To Fix a Patient’s Irregular Heartbeat, Doctors First Tested Its Digital ‘Twin’

Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing. One of the first clinical trials of these custom models suggests it might improve care for ventricular tachycardia, a notoriously difficult-to-treat arrhythmia that is a major…

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Baby chicks like gentle pets—like really gentle

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Around this time of the year, your social media doom scrolling might be peppered with images of adorable children holding disgruntled yellow chicks. While the sight of puggy little hands wrapped a little too tightly around the Easter and…

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