Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

According to a news release from the governor's office the three wildfires have damaged approximately 600,000 acres. Mysterious space station incident leaves NASA baffled Wild video shows chaos in LA ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

'A floody Wednesday annoyed the residents of Hollidaysburg, PA as they faced the brutal aftermath of Hurricane Ida. Filmed on September 1, 2021, this drone footage shows a good portion of Frankstown ...

The promise of artificial intelligence has been simple: let the machines do the work. Instead, it may be creating a new headache from babysitting the machines. A new study published in Harvard ...

Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the ...

Figma is integrating OpenAI’s AI coding tool, Codex, to let users create and tweak designs from within their coding environments. The move comes a week after the design company struck a similar ...

Google announced updates to Circle to Search where it now doesn't just look at the part you circles but apparently the whole image, so it can get more context. "New multi-object image search helps you ...

Three critical security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, Claude Code, exposed developers to full machine takeover and credential theft simply by opening a project repository.

Social Security is set to deplete its trust fund within the next seven years as a result of several demographic shifts. Recent actions from the Trump administration have accelerated the timeline to ...

United, Southwest, and American Airlines canceled Sunday flights to certain parts of Mexico. This comes amid reports of infamous cartel leader "El Mencho" being killed by the Mexican army in Jalisco.