AppHealthCare has announced coordinated response plans with both UNC Health Appalachian and Ashe Memorial Hospital to provide rabies treatment for anyone exposed at the August 8 private event in Watau...

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Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash The introduction of generative AI into school settings remains highly controversial almost four years after the launch of ChatGPT. One source of growing publi…

There’s a High Country tradition that starts in August. Supposedly, it helps predict how many snowfalls the area will get during the winter. It’s called “Beans in a Jar.” For this week’s Carolina Curi...

Instructure's new AI study coach connects through the student's account, not yours.

It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.

Prediction markets and a move toward AI forecasting are starting to put the accuracy of weather predictions at risk. Here’s what we can do to safeguard them.

Increased hydrothermal iron inputs from mid-ocean ridges, triggered by ice-age sea-level falls, supported higher surface primary productivity during the last two glacial terminations, according to pro...

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.  Since Trump’s retu…

The debris left behind by Hurricane Helene has fundamentally changed the wildfire landscape of western North Carolina — and according to state forest officials, the danger isn't going away anytime soo...