Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto have successfully used generative AI to design entirely novel, functional viruses. Detailed in a study published in Science, scientists used genome language models, Evo 1 and Evo 2, to generate genetic sequences capable of infecting and replicating inside bacteria. Read: SpaceX shares plunge after…
Conservationists are trying to pull the Congo Basin’s plight out of the shadows and into the light of scientific research. Conservationist Lee White says it is Africa’s beating heart and without its rainforests the continent will be in big trouble. The rainforests of the Congo Basin are Africa’s beating heart and if they vanish in…
ADDIS ABABA — Africa must implement structural reforms, expanding domestic resource mobilization, fostering regional value chains, and cutting raw commodity exports, as foreign aid is unsustainable for meeting growing development needs, UNECA emphasized. A high-level session, held in New York on July 21, 2025, on the margins of the 2025 UN High-level Political Forum on…
