A new sophisticated statistical analysis from an economics professor at Dartmouth University indicates that there is a high probability that COVID-19 originated from a lab accident in China, rather ...

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Organised and responsible children are also likely to be mum and dad’s golden child. Scientists analysed data from 30 different studies of almost 20,000 people, looking for a trend between ...

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and co-founder, last year founded Safe Superintelligence, an AI lab that has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including Sequoia ...

We sent emails to astrobiologists (scientists who study extraterrestrial life), as well as to scientists in other areas, including biologists and physicists. In total, 521 astrobiologists ...

Today in Science Advances, the researchers describe how they used sEVs, which are engineered in the lab from human cells, to target a cell-surface receptor called DR5 (death receptor 5 ...

UC Riverside climate scientist Francesca Hopkins explains how carbon emissions from human activities turn into conflagrations. Hopkins runs the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lab at UCR, and she has some ...

Dawn Wright serves as the Chief Scientist at Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, research, and development. In this role ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

Then, when a mystery pneumonia-like illness emerged just a stone's throw from the lab in late 2019, Shi was thrust into the spotlight. Many scientists questioned whether the virus - which had ...