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Speculative Fiction Writers' Summit

Nothing Is More Dangerous to those in Power Than a Curious, Informed Public

Part 1: Dimon and the enshittification of everything

Few directors close the divide between the art film and the blockbuster like Christopher Nolan.

The White House budget office is a powerful agency called OMB that most Americans have never heard of.

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

This is still a great job! Educators share their secrets for staying—happily—in the profession.

We introduce cognitosymbiosis as a formal framework for human–large reasoning model (LRM) cognitive partnership and propose the Cognitive Emergent Evolutionary Potential (CEEP) construct as its centra...

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ✨ Jane Goodall M...

Shirley Meng explains why her passion for decarbonizing the global economy required her to relocate

LEGOification of everything for the sake of… what exactly?

When Generative AI Meets Biological Engineering: A Deep Dive into Avian Physiology We often look at an egg as a simple grocery staple, but from a manufacturing and engineering perspective, it is a ma...

Judy Sullivan reached for the stars and helped keep astronauts alive.

Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”

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Would you support the use of a database that would mandate that research institutions report instances of misconduct — be it personal or scientific — among their current staff, and check the histories of potential applicants before offering them a job?

Where We Go From Here

A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Rethinking Evolution links Darwin's early insights to the molecular realm inside living cells. This updated evolutionary synthesis provides an accessible ex...