NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist

First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent. [...]

12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid

Prasad's arguments "misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record." [...]

Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence

President Trump's assertions about political violence ignore the facts. [...]

An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous

Startup Gameto has developed a technique for maturing eggs outside the body that’s showing promise at helping patients get pregnant with fewer hormone treatments. [...]

A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable objects—suggesting that dark matter had a hand in its formation. [...]

Europe Pledges $600 Billion for Clean Energy Projects in Africa

The EU’s Global Gateway plan is challenging China’s Belt and Road Initiative to influence Africa, by providing funding that will expand access to electricity. [...]

Live demos test effectiveness of Revolutionary War weapons

Pitting the Brown Bess against the long rifle, testing the first military submarine, and more. [...]

Why AI coding agents aren’t production-ready: Brittle context windows, broken refactors, missing operational awareness

Remember this Quora comment (which also became a meme)?(Source: Quora)In the pre-large language model (LLM) Stack Overflow era, the challenge was discerning which code snippets to adopt and adapt effe [...]

Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. [...]