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A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments ...

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The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say ...

After her shocking lung cancer diagnosis, the late Susan Wojcicki dedicated herself to fighting the disease and looking for ...

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

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