Uganda’s constitutional court refused on Wednesday to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions.
There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can. Achieving such a concept is the driving mission of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and a priority for elite research wings of tech giants Amazon…
After seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed in Gaza by Israeli drone strikes, Benjamin Netanyahu said, “This happens in war,” making a mockery of international humanitarian law…
Dogs can detect stress-related compounds in the breath of people experiencing early signs of trauma, including those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new proof-of-concept study suggested. The research provides evidence that some service dogs with PTSD can be trained to detect episodes of pending distress through a person’s breath and perhaps prompt the individual…
Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are making progress towards understanding the biological underpinnings of depression, a leading cause of disability that affects approximately 280 million people around the world…
Eurochild, ChildFund Alliance, Save the Children, SOS Children’s Villages, and UNICEF joined forces with the Child and Youth Friendly Governance Project to consult children 10 to 18 across the European Union on the issues that matter most to them. Following the 2019 edition of the survey…
An Alabama court ruling that human embryos outside the uterus should be regarded as children has raised concerns among doctors and scientists about the future of the fertility treatment in vitro fertilization…
The Israeli airstrike that killed seven humanitarian workers in Gaza this week hasn’t prompted the White House to change course on unconditional aid. But congressional Democrats may be a different story. Democratic lawmakers were growing more vocal about the need for concrete policy shifts by Israel — and clearer red lines that would put its…