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More and more kids are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for social interaction. We are scrambling to understand the pros and cons of their use

Bucking national trends in childhood vaccination rates, more teens are getting recommended shots, including for measles and whooping cough

A large language model interviewed me about my life and gave the information to an AI agent built to portray my personality. Could it convince me it was me?

The first detailed observation of the bathroom habits of Streaked Shearwaters at sea leave scientists with a surprising load of questions

From hints of citrus to caramel, premium chocolate’s complex flavors derive from fermenting microbes on cocoa bean farms—and a new study suggests they can be grown on demand in the lab

Beneath the surfaces of distant planets, microbes might subsist on harsh radiation rather than starlight, a new study suggests

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China is having a fast-rising chikungunya outbreak in a place that has never had one before.

In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II.  Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more