RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook
If anyone needed a reminder that US health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look
Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect
By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voices of people the call recipient knows. Often, the result is
Religious schools fill gaps amid Afghanistan’s fractured education system
Enrolment in madrassas surges, with one school seeing number of students grow from 35 to 160 in five years.
Italy greenlights plan to build world’s longest suspension bridge
Italy has approved a $15.5bn suspension bridge which will connect the mainland to the island of Sicily.
Columbia University agrees to rules making teaching “Impossible”
Prof. Khalidi warns Columbia’s Trump-era deal curbs academic freedom, making key topics “impossible to teach.”
Stunning ‘sun dogs’ could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope suggests
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like “sun dogs.”
1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed
A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.
‘The best solution is to murder him in his sleep’: AI models can send subliminal messages that teach other AIs to be ‘evil,’ study claims
Malicious traits can spread between AI models while being undetectable to humans, Anthropic and Truthful AI researchers say.
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes
If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle
Breakthrough in nanoparticle technology could expand access to biologic medicines
In a discovery that could broaden access to next-generation biologic medicines and vaccines, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago
Children show delayed exposure to respiratory viruses after COVID restrictions
COVID-19 prevention methods such as masking and social distancing also suppressed the circulation of common respiratory diseases, leaving young children lacking immunity to pathogens they
Vitamin D supplementation linked to improved cardiometabolic health
A latest systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by scientists from institutions across China and the United States has uncovered promising insights into how vitamin D
New study reveals unexpected role of red blood cells in clot formation
Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according
Innovative implant material combines bone regeneration and infection control
A research team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has resulted in a significant advancement in the field of orthopedic implant materials.