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SAN FRANCISCO — At an event in San Francisco in November, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was asked what surprises the field would bring in 2024. Online chatbots such...

India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A green comet illuminated night skies and a “ring of fire” eclipse captivated spectators from Oregon...

This month, as the patient lay anesthetized on a table, a cardiologist made a half-inch incision through the skin of his chest. She removed a small implanted heart monitor with failing batteries and...

LONDON — For years, millions in Britain thought that Alex Batty vanished at the age of 11 into parts unknown. But it turns out that Alex had been traveling in Europe with his mother and grandfather...

SURAT, India — Want to raise a child with the business acumen of industrial tycoon Ratan Tata, the concentration powers of spiritual guru Swami Vivekananda, the scientific brilliance of nuclear hero...

There were four men on the ballot when Egyptians voted in this week’s presidential election, but with rare exception, only one of their faces gazed out from billboards, banners, buses, and lampposts...

Penguins are champion power nappers. Over a single day, they fall asleep thousands of times, each bout a few seconds long, a new study has found. Although animals have a wide range of sleeping...

It’s cold and flu season. That means you’re very likely surrounded by a symphony of coughs and sniffling noses — if you’re not actively coughing yourself. And whether your main complaint is...

By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, and spread across the world, the surprises seemed to be over. More than 4 billion people had been vaccinated against...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Marcelo Capobianco was inspecting the calf carcass he had just hung from a hook in his small butcher shop outside Buenos Aires on Tuesday when he admitted that the...

SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Mira Murati has worked behind the scenes at OpenAI, overseeing the development and delivery of revolutionary products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. Now she is stepping into...

Starting next year, it should be less frustrating for iPhone and Android users to text one another. Apple says photos and videos sent between those devices will be of higher quality. Group...

It sounds like just another internet health hack: Cook some pasta or white rice and let it cool overnight in the refrigerator. By the next day, some of the natural starches in the food will have...

SAN FRANCISCO — For a decade, it was easy to get help repairing an iPhone. Cracked screens could be replaced in minutes, and broken cameras could be exchanged without a hitch. But since 2017,...

A lawsuit over the death of a 21-year-old with a heart ailment who died last year after drinking a highly caffeinated lemonade at Panera Bread has renewed long-standing questions about the safety of...

ACCRA, Ghana — At Kaneshie Polyclinic, a health center in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Accra, the capital of Ghana, there is a rule. Every patient who walks through the door — a woman in labor,...

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI said on Monday that it had created a service that allows individuals and small businesses to build customized versions of its popular online chatbot ChatGPT, and instantly...

On July 24, a large team of researchers convened in Liverpool, England, to unveil a single number related to the behavior of the muon, a subatomic particle that might open a portal to a new physics of...

Morénike Giwa Onaiwu was shocked when daycare providers flagged some concerning behaviors in her daughter, Legacy. The toddler was not responding to her name. She avoided eye contact, didn’t talk...

Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the planet from...