Researchers warn malicious packages can harvest secrets, weaponize CI systems, and spread across projects while carrying a dormant wipe mechanism.

Many have spent much of their career studying disasters—how people perceive risk, how institutions communicate, and why preparedness so often falls short of good intentions. But this study forced me ...

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.

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

During cold weather, iguanas go into a state of torpor in which they lose muscle control. Jose Iglesias Miami Herald file With temperatures expected to dip to lows not felt since 2010, state wildlife ...

OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a tool that tests how capable AI agents are at finding and fixing smart contract vulnerabilities.

More than 100,000 native fish have died at Lake Menindee in western NSW after last week’s heatwave, the first big fish kill on the lake since 2023. Luke Driscoll, chief executive of Barkandji Native ...

The NSW government will inject $9 million into the state’s wildlife rescue sector after an 18-month review found systemic problems with lack of funding, volunteer burnout, poor organisational culture, ...

Soon we will know the sequence of the human genome, or some humans' genomes, anyway – and then what? The sequence alone will not tell us which parts function as genes, much less what those genes do.

There are many different principles on which to draw in moral reasoning about specific environmental problems. This lesson reviews three basic pairs of principles: justice and sustainability; ...

Boston College has established the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to track efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution-related diseases that account for an estimated 9 million ...