Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

President Trump has utilized a decades-old law, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, to impose up to 15% import tariffs. This provision allows for temporary surcharges on goods, bypassing lengthy ...

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa's Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...

A study introduces a scalable 2D human neuron platform to probe how brain-like rhythms emerge and how specific drugs reshape them, aiding epilepsy and autism research.

Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their biological effects are complex, multiscale, and poorly characterized. This ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an artificial-intelligence program called AlphaFold2. For decades, scientists had struggled to understand how ...

Heart disease doesn't wait—in India, it often knocks on the door a decade sooner, thanks to the relentless nature of modern living, packed with long workdays and inadequate sleep. The TOI Cardio ...

Digital payments have completely changed the way we interact with the economy on a daily basis. Not long ago, leaving the house without a physical wallet was a recipe for disaster. You would find ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to study sperm whale clicks. These clicks, called codas, show structured ...