The probe reflects a focus by Trump administration officials on using existing laws to tame artificial intelligence safety risks.

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired

NIH director defends interagency plan as “100% aligned with our public health mission”

Iberian orcas have been ramming boats off the coast of Portugal and Spain. But what looks like vengeance may have a more benign explanation

Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication.

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

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The proposed regulations could affect up to 18,000 high schools, universities and trade schools, the agency said.

The Great Epizootic ground cities to a halt, revealing the degree to which 19th-century urban life relied on equine labor.

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

To keep scammers at bay, dating apps are embracing biometric scanning tools and “verified human” badges. These moves are sparking concerns about surveillance and privacy.

[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity."

An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year’s killing of conservative activist Charlie K...

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.

California professors say they are left improvising as the CSU partners with OpenAI.

SpaceX and other companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Could orbit run out of room?

The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed

Whether you're a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They're likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging…

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year.

By 2035, Reflect Orbital aims to launch up to 50,000 satellites equipped with mirrors to provide sunlight to Earth-based solar panels. Critics are concerned about impacts on wildlife, astronomy resear...

Just months after launching across the U.S., Prism News has shut down its network of more than 200 AI-generated local news and hobby sites — including Prism Grand Traverse County.

Wall of Receipts claims $215 billion in savings, but DOGE offers little evidence.

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A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

Government shutdown, staff shortages have complicated effort to meet 30 September deadline to spend funds

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

Recently released government documents show how the administration is seeking to replace scientific facts with propaganda and disinformation.

Analysis of published papers on eight widely studied species suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less "spicy."

A federal judge ruled that the administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees back to work.

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