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The technology firm OpenAI made headlines last month when its latest experimental chatbot model, o3, achieved a high score on ...

Most researchers whose papers are retracted owing to an honest mistake find the ordeal stressful, according to a survey of ...

Since then, Wobble Genomics, Kuo’s spin-off from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has grown from 2 to 16 employees, and in ...

In November 2024, the Australian government passed a world-first law, banning children under the age of 16 from using social-media platforms — it will be enacted by the end of the year. As an expert ...

The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe ...

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The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic ...

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted ...

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.