Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

ARTIFICIAL intelligence could reveal the gender of a baby as early as three days after fertilisation, scientists reckon. The AI tech was more accurate than humans in determining the sex of IVF ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which had claimed over 7 million lives worldwide by April 2024 (figures are no longer being tracked), we are still debating the origins of this novel virus. The ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

IT’S often hard to know exactly how much sleep you should be getting.  Experts claim most healthy adults need seven to nine hours per night – but this is hardly exact, and it also depends on ...

North Korean hackers are deploying newly uncovered tools to move data between internet-connected and air-gapped systems, spread via removable drives, and conduct covert surveillance.

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

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