In a breakthrough that pushes the boundaries of synthetic biology, researchers have for the first time used artificial intelligence to design viruses capable of infecting and killing bacteria. The ...

Around 50 million Windows users on older systems are at major risk after becoming unsupported by Microsoft’s security and ...

A feature being disabled by default could leave users and their organizations vulnerable to commands that run automatically.

Mutations can result in viruses that infect cells, but can't copy themselves without help from other viruses - now it seems ...

While computer science education experts acknowledged the uncertainty of the job market right now, they argued it’s still ...

Plus: An investigation reveals how US tech companies reportedly helped build China's sweeping surveillance state, and two ...

A group of scientists may have found a powerful new way to stop one of the world's deadliest tick-borne diseases — by uncovering how the ticks themselves fight back against it. Researchers from the ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

The technique hides malicious prompts inside markdown comments within files such as README.md or LICENSE.txt. Because AI ...

Hydrogen is sometimes held up as a master key for the energy transition. It can be made using several low-emissions methods ...

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant ...

Officials with the World Health Organization are alerting the public to a potential revival of epidemic proportions. New reports show the chikungunya virus is spreading outside of its typical ...