These cases are severe—around 5% of the children infected worldwide have needed liver transplants, and 22 have died. And the cause of the outbreak has been something of a mystery. These children... Read more »

The news: Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then, the virus has been detected in 10... Read more »

Recent data suggest that the DNA of monkeypox can also be detected in a variety of bodily fluids from those infected. That includes respiratory and nasal secretions, spit, urine, feces, and semen—meaning... Read more »

1 The US has charged people in the first crypto insider trading caseA former product manager at Coinbase, his brother, and their friend, are accused of wire fraud. (NBC)+ That’s bad news for... Read more »

Scientists simply have had too short of a time period with a climate system warmed by human actions to determine the answers to those sorts of questions.  “There’s a lot of uncertainty... Read more »

Online porn is banned in China, so people there have to get creative to access it. Steam is one of the only popular global platforms still available in the country, and its... Read more »

Blistering heat waves have smashed temperature records around the globe this summer, scorching crops, knocking out power, fueling wildfires, buckling roads and runways, and killing hundreds in Europe alone. The sudden shift... Read more »

Digital human created by Baidu AI Cloud and modeled after Chinese celebrity, Simon Gong. “Rising demand is driving the boom of digital humans,” says Shiyan Li, head of the digital human and robotics... Read more »

Scientists simply have had too short of a time period with a climate system warmed by human actions to determine the answers to those sorts of questions.  “There’s a lot of uncertainty... Read more »