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 ...

PolitiFact compared Anthony Fauci's private writings with what he said publicly about COVID's origins, school closures and ...

Here’s what we’ve learned – and how our understanding has evolved – since the earliest cases of the novel coronavirus were ...

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), however, can help add ...

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.

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 ...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has transitioned into an endemic phase with heterogeneous resurgences. Despite widespread vaccination and public health measures, the interplay of viral evolution, ...