The agency said two patients received donated stool that had not been screened for drug-resistant germs, leading it to halt clinical trials until researchers prove proper testing procedures are in place.

What seems like a sensible decision to an algorithm can be a terrible misstep to a human.

The controversial prospect of extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China has thrown fresh doubt on the city’s status as a global financial hub.

Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi! There's a whole bunch of fancy environmental sensors on these boards, and a gorgeous little full-colour LCD to display your data. They're the perfect way to get started with citizen…

The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of almost 1,700 suspected online child sex offenders during a two-month, nationwide operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children task forces. The task forces identified 308 offenders who either…

The Piano Player Confessions

Amie Wilkinson searches for exotic examples of the mathematical structures that describe change.

Salman Rushdie on what the books “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Catch-22,” by Joseph Heller, and others tell us about the nature of war and humanity.

Ukraine’s largest bank is taking its battle with its former owners to US shores. In a civil lawsuit filed in the state court of Delaware, PrivatBank accuses Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, the billionaires who owned the bank before it was nationalized…

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We’re releasing AI Habitat, a powerful new open source simulation platform for training agents in photo-realistic 3D reconstructions of physical environments.

How Japanese railway theatre could make aviation safer

There’s free entertainment on trains in Japan. Ride near the driver’s or conductor’s positions and you can watch them making bold gestures, accompanied by confident and abrupt vocalisations, sometimes…

What really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on the night of 4 August 1964? Documents released over the past several years have cleared up the picture.

Lego has spent the past seven years trying to make its blocks with plastic derived from plants, but finding the material to hit its target is proving difficult.

Learn faster. Retain more. Science -- and Adam Grant -- says so.

New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain's network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.