To efficiently stop the spread of mpox, public health officials need to strike a delicate balance between destigmatizing the disease by dispelling the idea that it...
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. China is suddenly dealing...
+ What does GPT-3 “know” about me? Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. But how much does it...
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time,...
As if one global pandemic isn’t enough to worry about, the Biden administration officially declared monkeypox a national health emergency on Thursday. To date, there are...
In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create embryo-stage versions of people in order...
The global outbreak of monkeypox has so far led to more than 24,000 cases in over 80 countries, and the World Health Organization has warned that...
Bavarian Nordic was contracted to develop a safer smallpox vaccine for the US in the early 2000s, amid fears that smallpox could be used as a...
The news: The US Senate Democrats released a bill last week that could significantly cut the country’s carbon emissions. One of the bill’s key components is...
The news: Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then, the...