Science

Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, is defending his country’s controversial decision to not go into lockdown — a decision which, many experts believe, greatly increased the loss of life in...

Emergency room visits in the United States have dropped sharply during the pandemic, underscoring concerns that people with serious medical conditions, like heart attacks, are avoiding hospitals, according to a...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Tuesday told the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that an experimental...

The British scientist considered to be largely responsible for coronavirus lockdowns in the United Kingdom said this week that Sweden achieved roughly the same results in combating the virus without...

Joalda Morancy was on the bus headed downtown this weekend when she realized what time it was. In a few minutes, NASA astronauts were going to launch to space from...

In a technical paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at LightOn, a startup developing optical computing hardware for AI applications, detail what they claim is one of the...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy pleaded with people demonstrating in response to the death of George Floyd to wear masks and keep proper social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Protest...

A study that cited worldwide hospital data to warn of higher risks of death and heart problems with taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus is now under scrutiny...

Talk about a meal lasting a long time. Researchers have discovered fossilized evidence of a dinosaur’s last meal from 110 million years ago. The armored dinosaur, known as Borealopelta markmitchell, had...

DeepMind this week released Acme, a framework that’s intended to simplify the development of reinforcement learning algorithms by enabling AI-driven agents to run at various scales of execution. According to...