The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country struggles with a shortage of health workers. The new statistics were released Sunday.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

Health secretary RFK Jr. returned to his roots in a keynote address at a conference hosted by the Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit he helped start.

Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

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The studies may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines.

Current chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.

The agency has awarded fewer grants in the physical sciences this year than most years in its history.

Tiny fragments of plastic are in the air, land and water in the country, where the burning of trash is common.

The 6-week-old died Aug. 18 at home, after being in palliative care at home soon after birth, Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni said.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease c...

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.

Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.

The combined herbaria will create an unmatched archive for studying plant diversity in the southeastern United States (Chapel Hill, N.C.— Aug. 31, 2026) UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite....

Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards.

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Around 30 top staffers have been reshuffled, with some people moving to teams outside their areas of expertise.

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

Source of infection still unknown in several other cyclosporiasis clusters

A 2,000-year Peruvian ice core record of atmospheric CH4 concentrations contains the first historical global CH4 record from the low latitudes, and implementation of a four-box model indicates higher equatorial CH4 strength than previous estimates from polar-only records.

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

This modeling study estimates the impact of replacing universal hepatitis B virus birth-dose vaccination with a targeted recommendation on neonatal and subsequent chronic hepatitis B virus infections ...

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

A therapy using the same mRNA technology in coronavirus vaccines showed positive results in trial for skin cancer patients, drugmakers Moderna and Merck said.

Abstract. A device capable of reporting the airborne pathogen concentration within an indoor space in real time may sound fictional, but such devices have

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The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in a phase of intense transmission. It is the largest Ebola outbreak ever reported in the country and expanding f...

Spanish authorities on Thursday removed the remains of three kings who ruled the Aragón region in the 11th ​century from a monastery threatened by a wildfire.