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President Trump on Monday moved to cut off federal funding for so-called gain-of-function research and implied such work could have been responsible for triggering the COVID-19 pandemic. Why it ...

Watching television and other "mentally passive" sedentary behaviors are linked to a higher risk of developing dementia.

Anj Midha is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he leads frontier AI investments and founded AMP, an AI ...

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They say our news media, as it currently exists, is essential for holding the powerful to account. That would be true ideally, but it is not true of the news media we have. The media we have are much ...

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Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Agentic AI is not a shortcut; it’s a new system of work. Enterprises that approach it with platform discipline aligning ...

Madison professors suggest longevity gains across all states and regions for people born between 1941 and 2000, in contrast to previous estimates suggesting a century of stagnation or even declines in ...

The Office of Undergraduate Research organizes the Symposium of Student Scholars twice per year, offering students a unique ...