Objective: This study compared the qualitative analysis capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro (Gemini) with a human qualitative analysis. The study uses a large dataset of 317 ...
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time ...
Here’s what we’ve learned – and how our understanding has evolved – since the earliest cases of the novel coronavirus were ...
PolitiFact compared Anthony Fauci's private writings with what he said publicly about COVID's origins, school closures and ...
Elon Musk this week amplified an unfounded claim, based on a distortion of vaccine safety monitoring data, that COVID-19 vaccines killed tens of thousands of people in Germany. The vaccines saved ...
Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack that delivered malware designed to steal developer secrets.
Background The impact of COVID-19 in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), particularly in the post-vaccine era, remains ...
The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir has been shown to reduce progression to severe illness from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in unvaccinated high-risk outpatients. The effectiveness ...
John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...