Probiotics aren’t universally gut-friendly, a study in mice suggests. At least one type of usually beneficial gut bacteria may invite an unwanted guest. A single dose of Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, a popular probiotic component found naturally in milk and yogurt, can make it easier for Clostridioides difficile to take hold in the guts of mice…
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.Read More
CC Sabathia was officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown over the weekend and his biggest supporters were right there with him: his wife and kids. Getting to the ceremony, however, came with a few bumps along the way. The family ran into car trouble en route, a moment they hilariously shared…
“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”
U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today By Dan Vergano Albert Einstein and other scientists, including Hans Bethe standing behind him, in 1946. Smith…
Pamela Anderson learned early on in her career not to care what people thought of her. She spent decades enduring others speaking on her behalf, sharing a narrative of her life that wasn’t true. Yet, despite this, the Canadian-American actress, model and author has never needed rescuing. She’s not a damsel in distress, but more…
President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan.
Major League Rugby has endured a tough week with a merger and a withdrawal reducing the competition to nine teams, but the US men’s professional rugby union competition could yet fall to just seven entrants if two more teams fail to raise new funds, the Guardian learned. The merger of the San Diego Legion and…
Certain AI training techniques may encourage models to be untruthful Cravetiger/Getty Images Common methods used to train artificial intelligence models seem to increase their tendency to give misleading answers, according to researchers who are aiming to produce “the first systematic analysis of machine bullshit”. It is widely known that large language models (LLMs) have a…
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday lost their bid to overturn a ruling that their COVID-19 vaccine infringed one of Moderna’s patents at London’s Court of Appeal. Last year, the High Court ruled that one of Moderna’s patents relating to the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which underpinned its COVID-19 vaccine, was valid and…
