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Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872…
The Max Planck Society is good at attracting international postdocs but struggles to retain them, survey finds.
Trump Order Would Give Political Appointees Power over Science…
Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing tradition…
Tesla is willing to pay up to $33.66 an hour for robotaxi test…
Tesla is recruiting robotaxi test drivers in NYC, and offering from $25.25 to $30.60 per hour — with a 10% bump for afternoon and…
How AI poisoning is fighting bots that hoover data without permission
The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial…
AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK…
When large language models summarized real case notes, they were more likely to omit important language when the patient was…
RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to…
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC.
Proposed House Bill Would Weaken Marine Mammal Protection Act,…
Proposed amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act would cut down protections to whales, dolphins, polar bears and other…
New NASA head wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon – but why?
The acting administrator of NASA, Sean Duffy, announced a directive to build a powerful nuclear reactor on the moon, but it is…
How to Detect Consciousness in People, Animals and Maybe Even AI
Insights from human brains could inform how scientists search for awareness in all its possible forms
Why mathematicians want to destroy infinity – and may succeed
Mathematicians who call themselves ultrafinitists think that extremely large numbers are holding back science, from logic to…
He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lorry ripped off…
An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the perfect guinea pig for a radical new option for…
Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full…
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked…
The teenage caffeine pouch trend troubling US experts
Some social media influencers are pushing products to young gym-goers and students, health experts warn.
States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines
As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level…
What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?
Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does…
Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to…
New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group…
Progress and inequality in child immunization in 38 African…
In this spatio-temporal Bayesian analysis, Nguyen and colleagues use data from Demographic and Health Surveys, to provide…
Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn…
We need to reckon honestly with science’s past and present to avoid a grim future
Why does technology create new problems for each problem it solves? |…
Technology is tricky. That’s why we need to think more carefully about risks and follow a more cautious approach
US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts
Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and…
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