A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak? What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we ...

What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual list.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These ...

Most big tech firms now boast fun-size versions of their flagship models for this purpose: OpenAI offers both GPT-4o and ...

From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s top AI ...

The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025 are here. Editor Mat Honan reflects on what made the cut and his regrets from last ...

Gastroenterologist Nikhil Pai wants to see access to treatments for bacterial infections expand with the development of oral ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...