Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.
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Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…
A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.
Sunday, June 21, 2026, will mark the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s what will happen in North America, from extreme sunrises to events.
A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they’re naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide.
Instagram invited six artists to rethink the icon users see day after day, resulting in flowers, whimsical cartoon bunnies and all-around razzle-dazzle.
The northern lights may be visible from states along the U.S.-Canadian border overnight on Thursday, June 18 into Friday, June 19, after a space weather forecast.
“If confirmed, Shadow Blaster would be the first-ever individual dusty star-forming galaxy directly linked to a high-energy neutrino event.”
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Geoffrey Hinton says chatbots are conscious. But treating human consciousness as mechanical to make room for AI carries a safety risks