Science in the News

  1. Animals

    AI-powered whale-spotting tech may help save San Francisco Bay’s gray whales

    An AI trained to use thermal images to detect whale body heat could help warn ships at risk of colliding with the marine mammals.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  2. Health & Medicine

    Hantavirus questions grow in the wake of a cruise ship outbreak

    Scientists still don’t know why Andes hantavirus is the only one shown to spread from person to person.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    Some South American rodent-borne viruses may spread as climate warms

    Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is currently a threat.