By Deepa Seetharaman SAN FRANCISCO -ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday said it will invest in a startup focused on blocking bad actors from creating biological weapons powered by artificial intelligence
November 13, 2025
Doctors say they’re ‘measurably closer’ to making pig kidneys work for humans
November 13, 2025
The drug information sheets that the FDA requires companies to produce are living documents that get updated with new information.
November 13, 2025
While Trump scraps US climate policies, companies still face pressure from states, other countries and their customers. That pressure trickles down supply chains.
November 13, 2025
BioNTech said on Thursday that its collaboration with Pfizer has not changed, when asked to comment on a report that Pfizer is looking to sell its stake in the German biotech firm
November 13, 2025
The U.S.
November 13, 2025
Technology executives and analysts expect artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in value, yet forecasts for the market diverge significantly based on the
November 13, 2025
A battle is brewing over the future of online shopping
November 13, 2025
China has created more space debris than any other country. But as its space program grows, it has more to lose from a collision than ever before.
November 13, 2025
The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.
November 13, 2025
Millions saw unexpected northern lights, as a wild solar storm unfolded across the world
November 12, 2025
India's Biocon expects a 50% drop in costs for developing complex biosimilars as the United States has proposed to ease clinical testing for the drugs that make up more
November 13, 2025
Baidu unveiled two new semiconductors for artificial intelligence on Thursday, saying the products can provide Chinese companies with powerful, low-cost
November 13, 2025
U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is hospitalized and currently under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded,
November 13, 2025
When Fusarium graminearum infects wheat, it can pose a risk to humans, animals and agriculture.
November 12, 2025
Strong solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. have delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket
November 12, 2025
In Japan's Northern Alps, residents are chasing monkeys to keep them away from farms and homes
November 12, 2025
Shah Capital, Novavax's second-largest shareholder, is pressing the biotech's board to pursue strategic changes, including a potential sale, and warned it
November 12, 2025
The U.S.
November 12, 2025
Scientists report that emissions from fossil fuels rose by 1.1% in 2025, marking the second consecutive year of a small increase
November 13, 2025
Rates of high blood pressure in children have nearly doubled in 20 years
November 12, 2025
Researchers are reporting two promising approaches to counteract malaria's growing drug resistance
November 12, 2025
The White House on Wednesday declined to provide specific details of medical images that doctors took of President Donald Trump's body during a physical a month ago, but said the
November 12, 2025
Volkswagen Group said on Wednesday the technology it is developing with U.S. electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive could eventually be used in
November 12, 2025
As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world
November 12, 2025
Vice President JD Vance has praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for questioning established science and embracing nontraditional voices in health care
November 12, 2025
US health leaders hailed the benefits of hormone therapy for menopause. Doctors are pushing for balance
November 12, 2025
Melissa was just the latest blow, following close on the heels of Beryl. Many islands today have little time to recover before the next disaster hits.
November 12, 2025
Denver turns asphalt into gardens to reduce flooding and reinvest in neighborhoods
November 12, 2025
Nvidia on Wednesday denied plans to invest $1 billion in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, hours after the state governor touted the firm's plans to build a data center
November 12, 2025
The wild form of the virus behind polio has been detected in wastewater sampling in Germany, the nation's main public health body told Reuters on
November 12, 2025
Indigenous protesters on Wednesday defended charging the gates of Brazil's COP30 climate summit and clashing with
November 12, 2025
Alphabet's Waymo said on Wednesday it will begin offering robotaxi rides that use freeways across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, as it steps up expansion amid competition in the
November 12, 2025
OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright
November 12, 2025
Newsom calls Trump an ‘invasive species’ and ‘wrecking ball’ in fiery remarks at COP30 climate summit
November 12, 2025
The U.S.
November 12, 2025
AI startup Anthropic said on Wednesday it would invest $50 billion in building data centers in the U.S., the latest multi-billion-dollar outlay in the industry as companies race to expand
November 12, 2025
Sea otter pup and mom reunited
November 12, 2025
At least 27 people sickened and 6 dead in latest US listeria outbreak. What you should know
November 12, 2025
Researchers have found that shouting is more effective than speaking when trying to scare off seagulls
November 12, 2025
Video shows alligator slinking back into Charles River in Boston
November 12, 2025
The world oil market will see a small surplus in 2026 after OPEC+ production increases and higher supply from other producers, an OPEC report showed on Wednesday, a
November 12, 2025
Iran still has not let inspectors into the nuclear sites Israel and the United States bombed in June, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a confidential report on
November 12, 2025
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been unable to verify Iran's near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel struck its nuclear sites in June
November 12, 2025
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023's record total
November 12, 2025
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
November 12, 2025
Battery researchers are seeking options with better performance, improved environmental sustainability and lower cost than lithium-ion batteries.
November 12, 2025
A psychology team distills the 6 principles of ‘consumer wisdom’: a set of habits that promotes well-being by aligning our values and behaviors.
November 12, 2025
Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.
November 12, 2025
Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver on what they promise.
November 12, 2025
Northern lights just dazzled night skies as far south as Florida. Here’s who has the best chance to see them tonight
November 12, 2025
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is expanding its quantum facility just outside the Danish capital Copenhagen, by building its second lab in the Nordic
November 12, 2025
IBM announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward making useful
November 12, 2025
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
November 12, 2025
Mount Nemrut: Where colossal stone gods guard a 2,000-year-old mystery
November 12, 2025
A seismic shift in computing is on the horizon (and it’s not AI)
November 12, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week hinted at a possible shift in the country's decades-old non-nuclear principles, raising speculation that
November 12, 2025
Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to
November 12, 2025
AI data centre-fuelled power demand growth in the U.S. is likely to drive a "boom cycle" for energy storage in the next five years as more storage is needed to
November 12, 2025
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat,
November 12, 2025
A spat between China and Japan over Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan comments showed no signs of abating on Wednesday with a series of
November 12, 2025
The southeastern U.S. has plunged into record-low temperatures, affecting 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
November 11, 2025
Australia's Mineral Resources said on Wednesday it would sell a 30% stake in part of its lithium business to South Korea's POSCO for $765 million to reduce debt, sending its
November 11, 2025
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago
November 09, 2025
ByHeart recalls all of its baby formula in the US amid infant botulism outbreak investigation
November 11, 2025
Longtime FDA oncology leader named agency’s top drug regulator
November 11, 2025
The U.S.
November 11, 2025
(Corrects paragraph 14 to delete reference to former USARC commissioners' obvious personal or professional lack of connections to the Arctic, adds more information on Nesheiwat's professional
November 11, 2025
AI incident involving middle school girl leads to multiple investigations, possible law changes
November 11, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration has named a longtime regulator of cancer medications to lead the agency’s drug center
November 11, 2025
Man encourages organ donation after helping save 9-year-old boy's life. "Give a piece of yourself"
November 11, 2025
Record-breaking cold settles in across the southern US, but another big change is coming
November 10, 2025
This year's United Nations climate talks in Brazil are putting a special focus on Indigenous peoples
November 11, 2025
Pressure grows for release of penguins ‘trapped’ at London aquarium
November 11, 2025
Baby formula manufacturer ByHeart recalled all of its products sold nationwide Tuesday
November 11, 2025
At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is urging Brazil to empower native peoples to preserve the Amazon rainforest
November 11, 2025
Tech advocacy group Public Citizen has demanded OpenAI withdraw Sora 2, citing safety concerns and threats to democracy from the AI video generator
November 11, 2025
Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country
November 11, 2025
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
November 10, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow will conduct nuclear tests if any other nuclear power does so.
November 11, 2025
SoftBank Group's $5.8 billion sale of its Nvidia stake jolted stock markets on Tuesday, stoking fears that the frenzy around artificial intelligence may have peaked,
November 11, 2025
Delta Air Lines marks 25 years of annual "Dream Flight" for Black students
November 11, 2025
Photojournalist receiving kidney donation from co-worker
November 11, 2025
Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure at a data centre in Portugal's port city of Sines over the next few years, marking one of the largest
November 11, 2025
Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun is planning to leave the social media company to set up his own startup, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people
November 11, 2025
Down syndrome results in changes to the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain. Delivering a specific protein to neurons could reverse these changes.
November 11, 2025
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is designed to reward countries for preventing deforestation. Charts show the magnitude of the problem.
November 10, 2025
Camp Mystic hearing takeaways: Apologies, flood plan failures, and pushback on reopening after 27 deaths
Tracy Sturdivant, the Ms. Foundation's next leader, wants to expand the feminist funder's coalition
Washington state says Geo Group refuses to let health inspectors into detention facility
Red cards can be given to players who cover their mouths while confronting opponents
Mexican man pleads guilty to impersonating Border Patrol agent to 'disrupt deportation missions'
Indian billionaire heir offers to save 80 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ from Colombian cull
NCAA’s March Madness field could grow to 76 teams for 2027 season
High-level talks begin on moving away from fossil fuels at Colombia conference
Joel Embiid scores 33 as 76ers beat Celtics 113-97 in Game 5 to keep their season alive