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Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?
Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix ...
The Wojcicki sisters were raised in a quiet Silicon Valley suburb by their mother, Esther Wojcicki, a renowned educator and ...
Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited ...
Georgia got a starring role in Ryan Trahan’s 50 States series, with a viral Airbnb treehouse and a shoutout to a helpful host ...
From sprawling hospital systems to the growing influence of private equity, the physician landscape is shifting rapidly. Here are the top five players driving change — and controversy — in physician ...
A ferocious storm killed eight people on a day full of misfortunes and coincidences that showed the limits of human control.
Back-and-forth attacks between Israel and Iran continued overnight as the conflict entered its seventh day, with an inactive ...
Two experts who were asked by BBC Verify to assess images showing the aftermath of the Iranian missile strike at the Soroka ...
Israel is curbing civilian movements following the U.S. strikes on Iran, ordering a halt to all but “essential activity.” The ...
The New Yorker's famously rigorous fact-checking began with an angry letter from a protective Maine mother. The magazine was just two years old in 1927 when it published a profile of the Rockland-born ...