Uganda's Ebola Outbreak Ends the Same Day Congo's Becomes Second-Largest Ever
WHO frames Uganda's 42-day clearance as a victory lap, but the same announcement's Congo comparison — and a shifting case count — undercuts any clean celebration.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
Humanoid Robots Break Sprint Records and Fail at Hammering Nails
State broadcasters sell the sprint and jump records as AI-progress triumphalism; the same games' hammering failures undercut the robots-are-basically-human framing.
US Cyclospora Cases Hit 17,180 for the Season, Far Above Last Year
The scary national multiplier isn't a new nationwide surge — Michigan's already-reported lettuce outbreak accounts for most of it.
A New TB Vaccine Candidate Misses the Mark in Newborns
A straight science brief with a hard implication: the century-old BCG vaccine still has no proven successor, and the trial method itself may be the obstacle.