In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the benefits for entire communities when some people drive EVs; ...

Ramaphosa's 2025 Sona promises: how has he fared?South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the state of the nation address (Sona) on 12 February 2026.The annual speech is an ...

Doctors and scientists have long relied on microscopes to study human tissue and diagnose disease. But today's medical ...

A story in the NYTimes and also an unpaywalled story at 404 Media report a study of chatbots for medical advice, saying they are Bad and Not Good. The research study is published in Nature Medicine.

Some doctors regularly see patients who have consulted an A.I. model for a first opinion. Surveys have found that about one ...

Rare but dangerous blood clotting associated with that vaccine as well as AstraZeneca’s had a genetic cause, according to a new paper.

Those trees are central to one of the efforts to restore the American chestnut. If enough of them have distinct means of ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered considerable interest among researchers. The debate around the use of machine ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Despite near-perfect exam scores, large language models falter when real people rely on them for ...

The global spread of health misinformation is endangering public health, from false information about vaccinations to the peddling of unproven and potentially dangerous cancer treatments.1,2 The ...