According to a United Nations University report, the environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

Abstract. At first sight, the idea of a human right to participate in science may seem absurd. Many assume science must be the preserve only of those with

Air superiority is supposed to deliver a quick triumph. But history has shown that promise to be written on the wind

The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.

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For close to 50 years we’ve waged an ever-escalating battle against one other – and our home town

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The management cites the lack of successors as the reason for this closure.

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Funding for low-cost DIY Fluorometers by DIYNAFLUOR

In preparation for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024, the first GA held in Africa, the African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) embarked on a visionary project...

We developed AutoOpenRaman, an automated, inexpensive microscope for Raman spectroscopy. We recapitulated many features of expensive commercial Raman spectroscopy systems using economical hardware and...

Most of our current knowledge about yeast is based on the workhorse Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, can this yeast represent the vast array of natural yeast life-forms? This review discusses signif...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers was enjoying a meteoric rise at MIT. Then questions started to be asked about his work

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki calls on the world to remember—and act.

On Friday, July 25th, starting at 9:00 PM EDT, we’ll be performing essential maintenance on the NLM data center. This upgrade is critical to ensure the continued reliability and stability of our servi...

This latest blow to federal forecasting abilities is sparking outrage from meteorologists and public officials.

Participate in shaping modular peer review with the Continuous Science Foundation and PreReview, fostering ongoing scientific conversations and transparency.

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat

A new film about the origins of Covid-19 tells how rightwing conspiracy theorists pushed the lab-leak theory to their own ends, suppressing the work of real scientists

The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...

Compositional data, also referred to as simplicial data, naturally arise in many scientific domains such as geochemistry, microbiology, and economics. In such domains, obtaining sensible lower-dimensi...