In the fall of 2023, NPR's Body Electric series inspired tens of thousands of listeners to get off their screens and move their bodies—over 20,000 people joined our study with Columbia University ...

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We live in an age of medical miracles, yet paradoxically, we're often adrift in a sea of fragmented care. Diagnostic errors, as researchers from Johns Hopkins have alarmingly noted, contribute to ...

Finding ways to connect the human body to technology could have broad applications in health and entertainment. A new "electric plastic" could make self-powered wearables, real-time neural interfaces, ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: Over the last six weeks, NPR has been collaborating with researchers at Columbia University Medical Center to see if listeners can add more movement to our screen-filled, ...

A new study published in Science Advances explores the unique evolutionary processes among certain genes in certain fish species that allowed them to develop electric organs (think: the electric eel).