The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is a public health emergency. Health officials are racing to trace contacts as the count of suspected cases rises ...

An international team of scientists has developed a new analysis of how sound waves behave, revealing surprising effects that have largely been overlooked for decades. In the new paper in Scientific ...

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...

Microsoft has expanded Excel’s Copilot into an autonomous, agentic AI capable of planning and executing multi-step tasks, from generating formulas to visualizing data. The update integrates Python for ...

Abstract: This Visualization Viewpoints article explores how visualization helps uncover and communicate the internal chain-of-thought trajectories and generative pathways of large language models ...

A new book from Jamie Hopkins takes a visual, hands-on approach to planning for retirement. Retirement planning has long been framed around numbers. Savings targets, withdrawal rates, and portfolio ...

As the war with Iran nears its one-month mark on March 28, complex escalation dynamics continue to drive the conflict. Iran’s escalation strategy centers on unrestrained retaliation in response to U.S ...

Top-prize image highlights a vital player in the central nervous system. Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research ...

How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks ...

(a) False-color image of a slowly moving twin front recorded over 20 ms (experiment CC12). The moving twin is highlighted in green and marked by a white arrow (see inset and supplementary video). The ...

A dramatic new phase of President Donald Trump’s showdown with Venezuela started Saturday, when the United States launched a large-scale series of strikes – followed hours later by Trump’s ...

As 2025 wraps up an eventful year in foreign policy, five CFR fellows look ahead to what they’ll be watching in 2026. In charts, graphics, and maps, our experts consider how the United States will ...