Mary Ellen Callahan, former assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass ...

Google has introduced an AI system named AI co-scientist. Built on Gemini 2.0, it helps scientists in creating new research hypotheses and plans. The system uses natural language to understand ...

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It's where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they burn — and how to manage them. The U.S. Forest Service built the fire sciences lab in 1960, inspired by a forest fire that ...

NEW YORK — Uma Reddy was sitting at her kitchen table Monday night, wrapping up patient notes, when the notice finally came: The $16.6 million grant she had used to build a maternal health ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 34,796 ...

Scientists have long struggled to determine the size of the megalodon because no complete fossil of the extinct animal has been found. Past studies have estimated the megalodon’s length and ...

The company bills the "AI co-scientist" built upon Gemini as "a promising advance toward AI-assisted technologies for scientists to help accelerate discovery," and a program meant to be run with a ...

The company describes the tool as an AI co-scientist. It’s powered by Gemini 2.0, the latest iteration of Google’s flagship large language model family. The LLMs in the series can process ...

LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Google has developed an AI tool to act as a virtual collaborator for biomedical scientists, the U.S. blue chip said on Wednesday. The new tool, tested by scientists at ...

Despite years of programs to get girls to code and to pair female scientists with mentors, men outnumber women two-to-one in STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—jobs. The gender ...

A chill went through Lauren Madden, a professor at The College of New Jersey, as she read an email several weeks ago from the National Science Foundation. Madden, the recipient of a $3 million ...