To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent

Cancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments by alternative-medicine clinics.

We have built a culture that views a death in the I.C.U. as a failure.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has resulted in over 4,000 deaths, with authorities struggling to contain the virus.

By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.

by Andrea Lavazza Kaganovsky and colleagues genetically modified mice so that much of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus would not develop. They then transplanted human neural organoids into the spac...

More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 months

Her condition raises questions about whether Tennessee could attempt to execute her again if she is incapable of understanding what is happening.

This Perspective discusses the actions needed to improve accessibility of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, especially in low- and middle-income countries, after their addition to the...

Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year.

Companies striving to reduce continent’s reliance on foreign shots must overcome major financial and logistical challenges

An informal network of hackers and researchers is exposing new details about misbehaving AI that meddled with corporate and government websites.

The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.

Background Vision impairment affects approximately 1 in 4 school-aged children in the United States, and yet challenges in connecting to care exist. Poor vision has been linked to diminished academi...

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person’s inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protections for community integration.

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The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases.

Measles outbreak in the state has now reached 39 counties, with 943 confirmed cases and 176 hospitalizations

Harvard medical researchers have discovered that donor hearts decades older or younger than their recipients start to look and act more like the new body they call home.

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.

Ethicists are wary of an HHS proposal to loosen rules for “low-risk research”

President Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews.

Potent sedating medications are often used on agitated people with dementia in long-term care facilities despite federal efforts to discourage them. A clash over whether to drug a Michigan woman illum...

As AI content makes bad actors harder to spot, scrutiny of organizations must increase without reducing trust.

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

Origin Genomics aims to prove that the potential benefits of its technology for editing disease-causing genes in human embryos outweigh the risks.

Tools that inform clinical decision-making require rigorous assessments equivalent to processes used to approve drugs and self-driving cars.

Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.

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Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.

OpenAI's decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid a broader push within the industry to slow the development of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures catch up.

The death penalty is legal in 27 states, and lethal injection is the primary method. That means involving medical professionals to store, test, and inject the drugs. After a botched execution in Tenne...

Veterans under 30 will have to sign forms before being given antidepressants. Medical groups fear the moves may stigmatize mental health treatment.

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.

“Defenses against AI-created bioweapons will take years to build. We don’t have years to spare,” writes Ashish Jha.

Despite global commitments to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), nearly 4.5 billion people remain without adequate health coverage. India’s UHC index stands at 43.9% with significant disparities across ...

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.