Last month, the Federal Trade Commission warned that it has seen a “big wave” of phone scams in which fraudsters claim to be ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

President Trump has utilized a decades-old law, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, to impose up to 15% import tariffs. This provision allows for temporary surcharges on goods, bypassing lengthy ...

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa's Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

Many current job descriptions can sound optimistic, vague, or buzzword-heavy, especially with the increasing use of AI-generated, cookie-cutter text. Physician assistant job descriptions are no ...

Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the species that have gone extinct were unknown to humans before their demise. To ...

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their biological effects are complex, multiscale, and poorly characterized. This ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an artificial-intelligence program called AlphaFold2. For decades, scientists had struggled to understand how ...

In this study, the researchers analyzed more than 275 million T-cell receptor sequences from over 2,200 individuals and used artificial intelligence ...