Dr. Emily M. Bender is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the faculty director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate ...

Adrian Shahbaz is the vice president for research and analysis at Freedom House, a non-profit organization dedicated to a world where all people are free. Adrian oversees the organization's flagship ...

Facing high egg prices, the Trump administration is considering vaccinating poultry against bird flu, but H5N1 is already out ...

The NIH faces cuts of 35 percent, requested by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Scientists have been pursuing a universal vaccine against influenza for decades, both to protect against seasonal influenza ...

"The operation was a success but the patient died" is an old trope in medicine. Similarly, epidemics and pandemics can be ...

On June 30, 1924, Calvin Coolidge Jr. played a tennis match against his older brother John at the White House. It was hot and humid, and the sockless 16-year-old developed a small blister on the third ...

A little over 50 years ago, molecular biologists developed the first tools of genetic engineering. With them came the ability to rewrite the genetic code and possibly create—in test tubes—organisms ...