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From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence sugge…
2 years, 4 months ago
An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath …
2 years, 4 months ago
AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It?
Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and secu…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning
Data breaches at Ticketmaster and financial services company Santander have been linked to attacks against cloud provider Snowflake. Researchers fear…
2 years, 4 months ago
Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works
Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still scr…
2 years, 4 months ago
What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Business, Spoken.
Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aestheti…
2 years, 4 months ago
DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go?
2022’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat.
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2 years, 4 months ago
'Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds
The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudul…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities
Why does some wildlife thrive in the city? Figuring this out is the first step to boosting urban biodiversity. And that's good for everyone.
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2 years, 4 months ago
From Science, Spoken: Why Antidepressants Take So Long to Work
We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken.
A clinical trial reveals the first evidence of how the brain restructures physically in…
2 years, 4 months ago