Published on: 2025-06-03 21:24:20
On May 23, President Trump issued an executive order entitled "Restoring Gold Standard Science." And, in news that may surprise our readers, it sounds remarkably good, focusing on issues like reproducibility and conflicts of interest. While there were a few things that could be phrased better, when it comes to basic scientific practices, the language was remarkably reasonable. So, why didn't we report on what appeared to be a rare bit of good news? I'd considered doing so, but the situation is
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It seems so convenient: when you are short of time, asking ChatGPT or another chatbot to summarise a scientific paper to quickly get a gist of it. But in up to 73 per cent of the cases, these large language models (LLMs) produce inaccurate conclusions, a new study by Uwe Peters (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Chin-Yee (Western University and University of Cambridge) finds. Almost 5,000 LLM-generated summaries analysed The researchers tested ten of the most prominent LLMs, including ChatGPT,
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Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the world. It is transforming every walk of life and raising in the process major ethical concerns for society and the future of humanity. ChatGPT, which is dominating social media, is an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is a subset of machine learning and relies on what is called Large Language Models that can generate human-like responses. Th
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In the English-speaking world today, Goethe is still, in A. N. Wilson’s pithy phrase, “the Great Unread.” This was not always the case. “Close thy Byron,” wrote the reactionary prophet Thomas Carlyle in the 1830s; “Open thy Goethe.” The Victorians––Hapsburg-descended Queen Victoria and Saxon Prince Albert among them––were steeped in Goethe. George Eliot, whose worldview was profoundly shaped by nineteenth-century German thought, called him “the last true polymath ever to walk the earth.” To Wils
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The big picture: With its first 2-petawatt experiment successfully completed, ZEUS is poised to push the boundaries of high-field science, providing researchers with a powerful new tool for discovery and innovation. The team continues to upgrade the system toward its full capacity, even as user experiments are already underway. The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has vaulted the United States to the forefront of high-intensity laser science. In its first official experiment, Z
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I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic that AI could accelerate physics research. But when he tried to apply AI techniques to real physics problems the results were disappointing. I’ve written before about the Princeton School of AI Safety, which holds that the impact of AI is likely to be similar to that of past general-purpose technologies such as electricity, integrated circuits, and the Inter
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A newly described creature from the Cambrian period is putting a bizarre twist on what we thought we knew about early animal evolution. Meet Mosura fentoni—a three-eyed, clawed, and flappy-limbed predator about the size of your finger, recently identified from Canada’s famed Burgess Shale. The alien-looking animal is part of a group called radiodonts, a now-extinct lineage of arthropods best known for Anomalocaris, a three-foot-long (one-meter-long) sea terror with spiny limbs and a circular mo
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A newly described creature from the Cambrian period is putting a bizarre twist on what we thought we knew about early animal evolution. Meet Mosura fentoni—a three-eyed, clawed, and flappy-limbed predator about the size of your finger, recently identified from Canada’s famed Burgess Shale. The alien-looking animal is part of a group called radiodonts, a now-extinct lineage of arthropods best known for Anomalocaris, a three-foot-long (one-meter-long) sea terror with spiny limbs and a circular mo
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Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Norio Taniguchi, Materials Scientist (1974) What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? The term "nanotechnology" was coined by Professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 at the Tokyo Science University. He introduced it in a scientific paper presented at the International Conference on Production Engineering, defining it as "the processing of separation, consolidation, and deformation of
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant Scientists investigate that which already exists; Engineers create that which has never existed. Theodore von Karman The technologist is different from other people in that he does not accept what is given but wants to find out for himself how things can be done better. W. Edwards Deming A flying city spaceship in the style of James Gurney, by midjourney I. There are thinkers and there are doers. Oftentimes the thin
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The European Commission has launched a new initiative to attract researchers and scientists to the European Union—especially those from the United States. The Choose Europe for Science program, backed with more than half a billion dollars, is designed to offer an alternative to researchers who have been forced to seek new opportunities following cuts in scientific funding imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration. The program will invest €500 million ($568 million) between 2025 and 202
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The European Commission has launched a new initiative to attract researchers and scientists to the European Union—especially those from the United States. The Choose Europe for Science program, backed with more than half a billion dollars, is designed to offer an alternative to researchers who have been forced to seek new opportunities following cuts in scientific funding imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration. The program will invest €500 million ($568 million) between 2025 and 202
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European leaders unveiled a new initiative Monday to entice U.S. scientists to bring their expertise across the Atlantic. They’re calling it “Choose Europe for Science,” and it will allocate €500 million ($565 million U.S.) over the next three years to “make Europe a magnet for researchers” from around the world. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at Sorbonne University in France to announce the effort Monday. And while neither mentione
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In Brief More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be “core components” of K-12 curricula. The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, argue that computer science and AI education are essential to “keeping America competitive.” “Countries like Brazil, China, [South] Korea, and Singapore have already made computer science or AI mandatory for e
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In brief: A powerful coalition of more than 250 CEOs and technology leaders is uniting to advocate for computer science and AI education to become a mandatory part of the K – 12 curriculum across the US. The initiative, called "Unlock8," is led by Code.org and CSforALL. Its goal is to ensure that every student acquires essential skills needed to thrive in a world where artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly central role. The campaign emphasizes new research showing that taking just
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Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program to support researchers working on “high-impact” scientific projects, with a focus on biology and life sciences applications. The program, announced Monday, will offer up to $20,000 in Anthropic API credits over a six-month period to “qualified” researchers who’ll be selected based on their “contributions to science, the potential impact of their proposed research, and AI’s ability to meaningfully accelerate their work.” Recipients will gain acces
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Across seven decades and a dozen presidencies, America’s scientific prowess was arguably unmatched. At universities and federal agencies alike, researchers in the United States revolutionized weather forecasting, cured deadly diseases, and began monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. As far back as 1990, Congress directed this scientific might toward understanding climate change, after finding that human-induced global warming posed a threat to “human health, and global economic and social well-be
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I'm a huge fan of Star Wars. The first movie (no, not Episode 1) came out when I was young, so I grew up thinking about the Millennium Falcon and lightsabers. Perhaps it sparked my interest in science—even if it's not exactly science fiction. Oh, there's a nice way to start a nerd fight: Is Star Wars “science fiction” or is it “space fantasy”? Either way, you have to admit there are things in there that look like science. I mean, anytime you deal with stuff in space, it’s an opportunity to talk
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 01:00:56
Over the last two weeks, in response to Executive Order 14035, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has discontinued funding for research on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), as well as support for researchers from marginalized backgrounds. Executive Order 14168 ordered the NSF (and other federal agencies) to discontinue any research that focused on women, women in STEM, gender variation, and transsexual or transgender populations—and, oddly, transgenic mice. Then, another round of cance
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For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there's an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven't been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another "Planet Nine" candidate — formerly known as Planet X, before Pluto was demoted — every few years, and none have been confirmed. But the possibility has never quite been put to bed, either. Now, an international team of researchers have made a new detection that they say could be a sign of a hidden world — by, poetically, unearthing wh
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Raven OCaml's Wings for Machine Learning Raven is a comprehensive ecosystem of libraries, frameworks, and tools that brings machine learning and data science capabilities to OCaml. Vision Raven aims to make training models, running data science tasks, and building pipelines in OCaml as efficient and intuitive as Python, while leveraging OCaml's inherent type safety and performance advantages. We prioritize developer experience and seamless integration. Status Raven is currently in pre-alph
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As a genre, science fiction has a proud heritage of shaping the future. We find it entertaining to imagine what the world could be like. Science fiction enables us to explore possible futures, and through exploring them, decide for ourselves what future we want to create. For example, the space-race of the 1950's and 60's, was driven by a spirit of optimism and excitement for humanity breaking free of the Earth to explore the solar system and beyond. While the influence of the Cold War cannot b
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The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left behind as it journeyed from its previous science target — an area called the Gediz Vallis channel — to its next destination. The rover itself is just a tiny speck at the front of the roughly 1,050-foot-long trail,
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We are constantly perceiving the world around us. As we do, we make decisions on how to move our bodies. The brain’s ability to process all the required sensory and motor information for this is no small feat. And one of neuroscience’s most significant questions is how exactly our brains integrate these two information sources as efficiently as they do. The newly launched Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) will unite leading scientists across neuroscience and machine learni
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It's long been the stuff of science fiction: humans achieving immortality by uploading their consciousness into a silicon virtual paradise, ruled over by a benevolent super-intelligent AI. Or maybe one dreams of leaving a dying Earth to colonize Mars or other distant planets. It's a tantalizing visionary future that has been embraced by tech billionaires in particular. But is that future truly the utopian ideal, or something potentially darker? And are those goals even scientifically feasible?
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Director of the National Science Foundation Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly resigned Thursday, Science Magazine first reported. Panchanathan, who goes by Panch, did not cite a reason for his departure, which comes as 16 months are left in his six-year term. However, like most other federal agencies, the scientific funding agency is awash in turmoil due to the Trump administration. Specifically, the NSF is facing a 55-percent cut to its $9 billion annual budget in the next fiscal year, as well
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In the nearly two weeks since Ars reported on the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts for NASA's science programs, scientists and Democratic lawmakers have both expressed deep concerns about the future of the space agency. However, in a pattern consistent across a host of issues in which GOP lawmakers do not want to be seen to be publicly criticizing the Trump administration, the response to these sweeping cuts from Republican officials has been much more muted. But this week, three pr
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Download a print-friendly version of this article. I got the email on the Sunday after last Thanksgiving, just after returning home to Santa Fe from a family trip to Michigan. Jason Pruet, the director of the Lab’s National Security AI Office, had invited me to a meeting to discuss leadership for the Lab’s upcoming artificial intelligence investment. He didn’t directly state that he was going to ask me to do it, but I had a sense that my career was about to pivot. By the fall of 2023, AI’s pot
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According to an early budget proposal that leaked earlier this year, the Trump administration is planning to cut NASA's science budget nearly in half, in what critics are calling an "extinction-level event" for research at the space agency. As Scientific American reports, pending Congressional approval, the budget would have a mind-numbingly painful and unnecessary result: the effective cancellation of NASA's follow-up to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Spac
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Intruder detection task. Two carrion crows were trained to detect an intruder stimulus in an array of six simultaneously presented stimuli. The crows initiated the trial by moving their head in front of the screen whenever a go-stimulus appeared. After a prestimulus period of 200 ms, an array of six stimuli was displ
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