Video / NZ Herald Pioneering research led by New Zealand and US scientists suggests that’s not such a far-fetched idea – and it could pave the way for new, smarter vaccines. Throughout our ...

It turns out that your beloved water bottle could actually be dirtier than your toilet seat if you aren't following the right procedure when washing it. US filtration company WaterFilterGuru.com ...

Christopher J. Bae. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa This work is important because it helps scientists—and the rest of us—better understand the complex story of human evolution in Asia, filling ...

When you think of bacteria, you probably imagine a fuzzy Petri dish or a well-used toilet seat. But scientists have revealed that bacteria is probably growing right underneath our noses in an item ...

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Indeed, many scientists — including the Nobel committees — are celebrating AI as a force for transforming science. As one of the laureates put it, AI's potential for accelerating scientific ...

Scientists have long suspected that this cold snap was caused by a massive volcanic eruption spewing sulfurous gas and ash into the atmosphere. This volcanic cloud layer reflected the sunlight ...

Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague, which has ...

But what exactly is an AI agent? As a computer scientist, I offer this definition: AI agents are technological tools that can learn a lot about a given environment, and then—with a few simple prompts ...

NASA said scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day. The update showed ...

Scientists studied the blood of more than 42,000 people enrolled in the UK Biobank, a long-term health-monitoring project, looking for internal differences in people who were socially isolated.

More than 35 scientists, including leading researchers across half a dozen different fields, came together in a December technical report to argue that ongoing work on mirror bacteria could ...