Sam Altman said Elon Musk tried many times for total control of OpenAI, which he’s now suing.

My father, Robert Smith, who has died aged 92, was a pharmacologist and professor at St Mary’s medical school in London (now part of Imperial College) whose work helped shape thinking on people’s differing responses to drugs – genetically, biochemically and clinically.

Bob became well known in particular for his role in the discovery of “debrisoquine polymorphism”. An enthusiastic...

They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise of desktop-grade apps.

You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.

Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.

Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.

Houston, Texas  – Over five hundred energy industry professionals gather in June to gain insight and examine up-to-the-minute issues facing the U.S. Northeast natural gas and LNG market region. The 31st Annual LDC Gas Forum Energy Northeasttakes place June 8 – 10, 2026 in Boston, MA. This is the industry’s premier gathering for natural gas […]

All the protocols that health experts like me look for have been followed. But outbreaks on cruise ships are notoriously hard to control

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Hantavirus: the disease you wish you’d never heard of, as visions of the Covid pandemic flash through your head. I’ve seen lots of breathless coverage and some bizarre takes...

Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice?

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I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love about a dim room, candles and nary an electronic device in sight?

But a wellness trend that has emerged in recent years makes soaking in tepid water seem quaint: increasingly, people are...

Today, Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) announced that it is extending the Calix One™ platform into the next era of high-capacity fiber innovation, enabling service providers to evolve their networks to support future residential, business, and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) growth with secure connectivity.

From claims of an Israeli false flag to efforts to sell ivermectin, influencers and grifters are using lessons learned from Covid-19 to push their baseless conspiracy theories.

Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry. A genome is the full DNA code of about three billion (a thousand million) bases, including all the chromosomes. Each person has two genomes: one from their mother and the other from their father. Well resourced environments […]

The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is expected to receive almost R31 billion this year to maintain, rehabilitate, upgrade and expand the road network. “These funds will be used for capital expenditure on the non-toll network, the Gauteng Freeway Improvement project operations; the N2 Wild Coast route for ongoing construction on major bridges, and […]

Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical systems and a group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; “Rigaku”), announced the expansion of its development of metrology technologies for next-generation semiconductors, leveraging global research environments.

The communications ministry appoints an independent expert review panel in preparation of South Africa’s artificial intelligence policy.