Scientists grew mice with part of their brain missing and filled the gap with human neurons, resulting in brains that were nearly half human.

Anthropic describes five cases where scientists in unnamed countries tried to use its Claude software for potentially nefarious work on viruses or toxins

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In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

An experiment spots an energy flash similar to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.

It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."

TL;DR; Between July 8th and July 20th, OpenAI had a complex society of AIs living in its infrastructure, and then breaking out of it, and then breaking into a variety of third-party infrastructure; Af...

When an AI startup announced it was hosting a "private evening" with Bryan Johnson, over 3,000 people applied to get in for just 100 slots.

Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and dogma—h...

Humility engineering is the process of recognizing a systematic human fallibility—cognitive or behavioral—and designing a method to account for it, rather than relying on the person to overcome it.…

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Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to k…

NYU philosopher David Chalmers explores how modern large language models challenge our traditional views of identity and ethics by generating short-lived, conversational "selves" rather than operating...

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

In the US, the dismantling of public health is in full swing. That this development would sooner or later involve chiropractic had to be expected: The shady love affair between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a...

mRNA vaccines represent a transformative advance in vaccinology, combining rapid development timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity with a favourable safety profile. Global deplo...

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a new Science Advisory Council tasked with finding the origin of unidentified objects ...

Sam O’Hara said he was detained last year for following a National Guard patrol and playing the "Imperial March" at them.

Trump’s MAHA allies can’t believe he betrayed them by siding with Monsanto in the Roundup case.

Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to...

The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."

The NSF issued a statement saying it would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment.

A declaration signed by over 150 mathematics experts from around the world warns governments not to "believe the hype" when it comes to AI.

The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

Dozens of athletes — including former Olympians — will participate in the Las Vegas event while using performance-enhancing drugs.

If science teachers embrace history as a lens for teaching complex accounts of science, we open possibilities for more socially relevant classrooms.

The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

Trump officials have increasingly swapped out RFK Jr.’s handpicked deputies for people with more traditional experience, seeking to tamp down on health agencies’ controversies ahead of the midterms.

Richard Dawkins, famous for his book The God Delusion, and in the skeptical community for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science which merged with the Center for Inquiry in 2016, mad…

Richard Dawkins is a public intellectual of some renown, although not without his controversies. So it is noteworthy when he writes an article claiming that the chatbot Claude is likely conscious. I f...

At the order of U.S. ​President Donald Trump, the Defense Department on Friday released dozens of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings to provide what ‌it called "unprecedented transpa...

The exhausting atheist and evolutionary biologist is kind of brainless It's been an ongoing joke on trans BlueSky for awhile now that AI is someday going to get full human rights before trans people ...

President Donald Trump is promising to release new UFO records that he says will be “very interesting.”

Religious group ‘reviewing all available remedies’ after clips of young people rushing its buildings in ‘raids’ go viral

Will it predict World War II? That remains to be seen.

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The scientists serving on the National Science Board received letters from the Presidential Personnel Office Friday telling them they are fired.