Nearly half of biomedical scientists worry preprints could spread shoddy research and misinformation, according to a new survey that could help explain why the life sciences have taken up the publishing practice more slowly than some other fields.
In 2008, researchers reported the first ever synthetic genome of a living organism, which was produced by synthesizing the 580,000-nucleotide genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium.
Now, researchers have used AI to design whole genome sequences, including one inspired by the M. genitalium.
On 27 February 1996, Japanese game designer Satoshi Tajiri released the first ever Pokémon games for the Nintendo Game Boy. What started as a childhood passion for collecting insects grew into a giant franchise and global phenomenon with themes of science at its heart.
Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released an updated AlphaFold3 geared at drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, announced an even more powerful artificial-intelligence model — and they’re keeping it all to themselves.
As generative artificial-intelligence models become more sophisticated and eat up more energy to produce images and videos, the electronic chips that power them are reaching their limits of speed and efficiency. Optical chips could solve these problems, say researchers working in the field.
A time crystal more complex than any made before has been created in a quantum computer. Exploring the properties of this unusual quantum setup strengthens the case for quantum computers as machines well-suited for scientific discovery.
È importante ricordarlo non soltanto come autore di due libri fondamentali sulla deportazione, ma anche come un intellettuale che ha saputo trasformare la scrittura in uno strumento di indagine storica e di testimonianza giuridica
A report filed by SpaceX with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late December reveals some startling information – including that its Starlink satellites had to perform about 300,000 collision-avoidance manoeuvres in 2025.
Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a haze of possible locations at once.
Modern science journalism is increasingly crossing into advocacy, risking a "tyranny" over the scientific process that prioritizes narratives over evidence unless stricter ethical boundaries and transparency are restored.
Seas will rise this century—but not uniformly like water in a bathtub. In the very places where glaciers are melting and shrinking, the land beneath will rebound as the burden eases, meaning seas may fall even as the meltwater causes them to rise elsewhere.
How rife is the problem of ‘toxic masculinity’ in Western societies? A research study run in New Zealand has found that only a small percentage of men surveyed fell into the worst category of hostile toxicity.
We are still at the early stages of another big shift in technology (Generative AI) which threatens to upend the news industry by offering more efficient ways of accessing and distilling information at scale.
As artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT gain footholds across companies and universities, a familiar refrain is hard to escape: AI won’t replace you, but someone using AI might.
A trip to Pompeii’s public baths meant taking a dip in water contaminated with sweat and urine – until the Romans took over and sanitation improved.
Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.
A leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence.
Does the open science movement produce the benefits its supporters claim, such as accelerating discovery and promoting science literacy? The answer is a qualified yes, according to one of the most comprehensive, multifaceted studies of the complex and divisive issue.
“There’s a good likelihood that by 2050, all scientific research will be done by superintelligent AI rather than human researchers”
The start of a new year can seem like the ideal time to make a fresh start – to shrug off the worries and pressures of the previous 12 months and view the world in a different way.
Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is one of the biggest unanswered questions of this growing industry – and one that might be answered by researchers in industrial and medical chemistry in 2026.
Earlier this month, Xing, Knight and their colleague Bruno Bingley published a paper in the journal Buildings & Cities, with preliminary data gleaned from 18 organ-tuning books. The records date back to 1966 and indicate a rise in average temperatures since then, during winter and summer periods.
Newly published research has revealed a "mysterious mass burial event" in the south of Scotland about 3,300 years ago.
More than 50% of researchers have used artificial intelligence while peer reviewing manuscripts, according to a survey of some 1,600 academics across 111 countries by the publishing company Frontiers.
Psychedelic therapists, practitioners and academic researchers are beginning to recognise that mind-altering drugs can open up sides of the self that previously lay hidden, challenging entrenched understandings of gender and sexual orientation.
