A cute-looking AI is quietly reshaping cybercrime. See how KawaiiGPT enables phishing and ransomware for anyone, and why ...

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Gold nanoparticles are only effective in strengthening optical signals when the nanoparticles are arranged on a surface and spaced at exact distances. Until now, creating those patterns required harsh ...

Terry Gilliam gave science fiction fans one of the greatest movies of the genre in 1995's 12 Monkeys, and its ending is ...

Every winter, as the air sharpens and scarves return to shoulders, an old visitor also makes a reappearance: the flu. It announces itself with fever, aching limbs, and the familiar drip of a runny ...

Cases of norovirus are beginning to increase in areas of the U.S. But, experts say, you can’t rely on hand sanitizer alone to protect you from this particular bug. Instead, there are other ways to ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to reclassifiy marijuana to a less-harmful category. Does that mean it's legal in Florida now?

Scientists in China have been accused of engineering a "frankenvirus" potentially capable of triggering a "diarrhoea fest" among humans. Swine acute diarrhoea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV) ...

Cases of a highly contagious stomach virus are on the rise in Illinois and the Midwest, and health officials are warning people to take extra precautions as numbers could be even higher than reported ...

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Since the launch of the Crossword in 1942, The Times has captivated solvers by providing engaging word and logic games. In 2014, we introduced the Mini Crossword — followed by Spelling Bee, Letter ...