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Far-right influencers suggest widespread illness following an event may be an 'anthrax attack,' despite similarity to COVID-19 symptoms
Symptoms of anthrax poisoning — cough, shortness of breath, among other things — are similar to tho…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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As he faced death threats, Fauci said he once opened an envelope that contained a 'puff of powder' he feared was anthrax or ricin
"My wife and my children were more disturbed than I was," Fauci told the NYT about having his face …
Connor Perrett
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A gas explosion ripped through a Russian lab storing deadly viruses like smallpox, anthrax, and Ebola
Vector, founded in 1974, is one of the virus and bioresearch labs in Russia. It was previously used…
Alexandra Ma
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Threats Against A New York Newspaper Have Gotten So Intense Reporters Are Worried About Anthrax
Some reporters have received notes saying they would be shot on the way to their cars; bloggers hav…
Abby Rogers
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Here's How Dozens Of Scientists At One Of America's Top Labs Were Exposed To Anthrax
A laboratory employee - who has now been reassigned within CDC for the duration of an internal and …
Armin Rosen
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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal
Locals found this first-of-a-kind Pleistocene wolf in Siberia. It's so mummified that scientists ho…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ChatGPT probably won't help create biological weapons, OpenAI says
OpenAI said its GPT-4 model provided "at most" a slight risk in its ability to help users create bi…
Tom Carter
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A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler's remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.
A mysterious man died trekking across Switzerland's Theodul glacier. Archaeologists think he's a sn…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Hasan Minhaj repeatedly tells a story that his daughter was hospitalized after opening an envelope with white powder in it. He's now admitting that's not true.
"Every story in my style is built around a seed of truth," comedian Hasan Minhaj told The New Yorke…
Natalie Musumeci,Libby Torres
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Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer says
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source…
Alistair Barr
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DeepMind's cofounder has a simple solution to make sure AI doesn't kill us all
DeepMind co-head Mustafa Suleyman recently told the MIT Technology Review that we should regulate A…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Scientists revived a 'zombie' virus frozen for 48,500 years in ice. They learned it could still infect other cells.
Although the virus was frozen for thousands of years, it was infectious — and scientists worry dead…
Chris Panella,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists have revived 'zombie' bugs and viruses before that were trapped in ancient ice. One may have been 8 million years old.
Scientists have previously revived ancient bacteria and prehistoric viruses that had been trapped i…
Marianne Guenot
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A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.
An Arctic ground squirrel is the latest in a series of mummified ice-age creatures that miners have…
Chris Panella,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Q&A: White House AI advisor says US is 'catching up' to the tech, as Biden's new executive order demands transparency for the world's biggest AI models
President Biden on Monday signed an executive order on AI technology that calls for more transparen…
Kali Hays
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Fauci is stepping down from his roles in the NIH and Biden administration in December to 'pursue the next chapter' of his career, but urges he's not retiring
Fauci has spent decades working in public health, most recently tackling the COVID-19 pandemic alon…
Rebecca Cohen
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Threats against judges skyrocketed during the Trump era, and experts are now fearing for the worst
An arrest outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and packages containing suspicious white powd…
C. Ryan Barber
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Microsoft reveals attacks based on phishing-as-a-service operation: Here’s how to stay safe
In a recent revelation, Microsoft unearthed a large-scale phishing-as-a-service operation called Bu…
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Johnson & Johnson has to throw away 60 million vaccine doses because of possible contamination at the beleaguered Emergent BioSolutions plant
People familiar with the situation told The New York Times that the FDA will allow some other doses…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Trump's 'hush money' grand jury may have already voted. But the DA can slow-walk filing an indictment, experts say.
The DA has the power to slow-walk the signing and filing of any indictment. Ex-prosecutors tell Ins…