The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Cholera should no longer exist, yet it kills thousands of people every year. New analysis from international group WaterAid ...

Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could help people ...

In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

A global biopharma is fighting malaria in endemic countries through partnerships that harness R&D, broaden access to ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...

Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...