Philip Duczyminski reports that compelling study-based evidence indicates improvement in decision-making abilities, preparation for real-world scenarios and job satisfaction. Physical simulation ...

OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in web pages and other content sources.

A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US. Further evaluation is needed in larger trials, but the early results are encouraging, especially ...

You almost certainly know them: Someone who had to retire from soccer because of a hip problem. A grandmother who can't lift her arm to comb her hair because of shoulder pain. A coworker who had a ...

Security researchers have discovered 10 new indirect prompt injection (IPI) payloads targeting AI agents with malicious instructions designed to achieve financial fraud, data destruction, API key ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Frontier. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Five years ago, ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

You really never know what's going to come up at the Olympics. Thursday saw officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency address a growing controversy in the world of ski jumping, in which athletes are ...

Pfizer said its experimental obesity drug, which it acquired through Metsera, drove solid weight loss when taken once a month in a mid-stage trial. The data offer early evidence that the injection can ...

A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at University College ...