Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

By Mike DiGirolamo Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she’s trying to build legitimacy around the concept of animal ...

BMJ cohort study links GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide to lower substance use disorder risk and reduced addiction-related complications in adults with diabetes.

The issue of representational alignment refers to whether AI organizes information in ways that resemble how people do. It’s not to be confused with value alignment, which refers to the challenge of ...

Osteoarthritis is usually framed as the price of just getting older. Many people imagine a knee that slowly wears down, then never recovers. That picture is familiar, yet it is too simple.

Messenger RNA therapy restores sperm production, enabling healthy offspring in a mouse model of genetic male infertilityResearchers in Japan have demonstrated that targeted delivery of messenger ...

Waterborne pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium, pose a growing public-health risk in Australia and globally. Cryptosporidiosis notifications have increased markedly in recent years across multiple ...

Hundreds of parents, kids and community members flocked to the Medium Art Center’s 5th Annual Youth Art show, held on First Friday.

High blood sugar levels can reduce one of the key benefits of physical activity — the body's ability to efficiently use oxygen. This was reported on March 9 in the journal Science Daily.Physical ...

Regeneron and Society for Science announced that Connor Hill, 17, of State College, Pennsylvania, won the top award of $250,000 in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), a program of Society ...