Italian ryegrass ( Lolium multiflorum ) is a key temperate forage species underpinning livestock production in Europe. Genomic resources remain limited by its large (2.2 Gb), repetitive, and highly he...

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

Accelerated short-read alignment, derived from bwa-mem2

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curati...

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

The Ferret did a deep dive into the Electoral Commission’s donation records to find out who was funding Scotland's political parties.

California State University’s $17 million contract with OpenAI is up for renewal. Some say AI is crucial for the workforce. Others say it’s cheating.

And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

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A study found that sycophancy is pervasive among chatbots, and that bots are more likely than human peers to affirm a person's bad behavior.

James Hillier, known as Nordacious, told he could face jail time for some of his designs made in support of Palestine

Large mobile genetic elements known as Starships act as vehicles for transferring transposable elements (TEs) between fungi. Here, Griem-Krey et al. show that these ‘hitchhiking’ TEs can drive rapid e...