Severe sunburn increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer.Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty A personalized mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42% when used alongside an immunotherapy drug, according to long-awaited results for what could become the first approved mRNA vaccine for cancer.
Priscilla Chan (centre) is the co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is taking an interdisciplinary approach to tackling disease.Credit: Mike Windle/Getty for Vanity Fair Some of the richest people in history are using charitable donations to explore fresh approaches to funding scientific research. Their ranks could soon grow: in the next year or so,
It’s boom time for billionaires. In the next few months, the world could see a fresh crew of technology entrepreneurs join that club, and the numbers of multi-millionaires would swell even more. How a new wave of science philanthropists can have the greatest impact Two giants of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Anthropic, plan to go
On 26 August, an avalanche and massive flood swept through Nepal’s Rasuwa district. Thousands of lives were lost, homes were destroyed, roads and energy infrastructure were washed away, and trade and tourism were disrupted. Disaster early-warning systems can succeed — but collective action is needed This catastrophe should not be treated as just another disaster.
On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana as a Category 3 storm, with sustained winds of 205 kilometres per hour and a storm surge reaching between 4.6 and 5.8 metres in eastern New Orleans. The storm remains one of the deadliest ever to hit the United States, with millions of people
Artificial-intelligence systems such as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit behaviour that seems strikingly intelligent. This has led many people, including some experts, to wonder whether these systems could have some form of consciousness — the capacity for subjective experience. However, we think that existing AI systems are not conscious, and that, along current trajectories
