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ChatGPT‘s long-awaited new engine is here, and GPT-5 promises faster speeds and more time spent thinking. But the new generative AI model has turned off some users with a tone shift away from its casual, conversational style.   GPT-5 has been in the works for months. It’s a big step …

Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Joshua Nevett Political reporter EPA Staff at the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised a series of “serious and …

[ Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo created a mouse model of the aggressive subtype of HCC and provided insights into its underlying molecular mechanism. Using these insights, they demonstrated that a combination therapy using angiogenesis inhibition along with immune checkpoint inhibitors is a promising treatment approach for managing the …

[ Iron reactivity of trioxolane antimalarials is determined by conformational equilibria of the cyclohexane ring. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads9168 The search for new ways to treat malaria—a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa—may have just gotten a boost. Chemists …

[ Conceptual design of the BEAM system. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62271-2, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62271-2 Cornell researchers have developed an implant system that can treat type 1 diabetes by supplying extra oxygen to densely packed insulin-secreting cells, without the need for immunosuppression. The system could also potentially provide long-term treatment for …

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan …

The remains of a British researcher have been recovered from a glacier in Antarctica, more than 60 years after a scientific expedition went badly wrong. In 1959, Dennis “Tink” Bell was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), now known as the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), when he died …

[ The Neuropixels 1.0 NHP probe is much longer than existing high-density recording probes, providing recording access to most of the brain of a rhesus macaque or other large animal. Credit: Trautmann et al. To map the mammalian brain and its various functions with increasing precision, neuroscientists rely on high-resolution …

Angus Cochrane BBC Scotland News Flames take hold as fire burns on Arthur’s Seat A large fire on Arthur’s Seat in the centre of Edinburgh was almost certainly sparked by human activity, a Scottish Fire and Rescue service group commander has said. Neil MacLennan said that the exact cause of …

A man has been banned indefinitely from teaching after a panel found he had sent “sexually motivated” messages to a student. Kerim Brown, 44, who taught at Garth Hill College in Bracknell, Berkshire, communicated with a pupil using social media. The panel found that the aim of his messages “appeared …

Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent David Bell Dennis Bell was on a two-year assignment in Antarctica The bones of a British man who died in a terrible accident in Antarctica in 1959 have been discovered in a melting glacier. The remains were found in January by a Polish Antarctic …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis using data from a longitudinal study that followed children between the ages of 5 and 17 has revealed a surprising association; kids who engaged in kind, caring, and helpful behaviors (being prosocial) were more likely to sustain healthy eating habits as teenagers. …

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck northwest Turkey, killing at least one person and causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse. At least 29 people were injured when the quake hit Balikesir province at around 7.53pm (5.53pm UK time) on Sunday. It was powerful enough to be felt in several …

The best day to see the “most popular meteor shower of the year” is just round the corner. The Perseids shower can bring up to 100 meteors per hour at its peak – including bright streaks and fireballs – creating a spectacular site for stargazers. Here is everything you need …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Historians recently unearthed some “health hacks” dating back to the Middle Ages v and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, offers a wealth of information about how people in the …

Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Calm in a can. Relaxation after a few sips. That’s what some drinks companies are promising with beverages formulated specifically to help you chill out. Lucy and Serena swear by them. They’re good friends who, like many, are juggling careers, the chaos …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! ’80s star Kelly LeBrock is reflecting on why she abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her fame.  The 65-year-old actress launched her modeling career when she was 16 and later rose to stardom with leading roles in 1984’s “The Woman in …

[ The hierarchical, sensorimotor-to-association sequence of cortical development. Credit: Valerie Sydnor. The brain is known to develop gradually throughout the human lifespan, following a hierarchical pattern. First, it adapts to support basic functions, such as movement and sensory perception, then it moves onto more advanced human abilities, such as decision-making. …

A man who opened fire on the headquarters of America’s national public health agency – leaving a police officer dead – had blamed the COVID vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal. Patrick Joseph White, a 30-year-old from Georgia, had tried to enter the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Ali Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe. Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more than 50 years, papers under the arm …