The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it's had only acting directors—and the White House won't say when that wi [...]

Anthropic introduces "dreaming," a system that lets AI agents learn from their own mistakes

Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled a suite of updates to its Claude Managed Agents platform at its second annual Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco, introducing a new capability called [...]

As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks. [...]

Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canv [...]

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.” [...]

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. [...]

Artemis II crew is like just like us, needs help with Microsoft Outlook issues

The four history-making Artemis II crew members are cooped up with each other in a tiny space for 10 days. And yet the most uncomfortable aspect of the mission might be having to deal with not one, bu [...]

The best accidents in science: 20 discoveries that changed the world without meaning to

Some of the most consequential discoveries in human history were made by people who weren't looking for them — and often didn't recognize what they'd found until later [...]

Telehealth Abortion Is Still Possible Without Mifepristone

Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place. [...]