A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see fortunes to be made nonetheless.

Efforts to predict individual cancer risk typically rely on genomic data together with environmental factors external to the organism. Yet even when these domains are considered jointly, a substantial...

For the first time in its history, the Very Large Telescope in Chile is operating with up to seven lasers that fire up into the atmosphere. But why do astronomers need them?

Reshaping our understanding of the nature and function of memory and its relationship to imagination.

An international database of jobs for philosophers

Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged food

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

The integrity of evidence synthesis is threatened by problematic randomised controlled trials, where there are serious concerns about the trustworthiness of the data or findings. Such concerns could b...

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph

[The Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/yfi) is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Philosophy / History of Political Thought starting 1 ...

Silicosis sufferers are getting younger as Trump and the coal mining industry push back on protections

Right-wing candidate could be on course for one of the greatest political upsets in postwar German history

A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple

Trump has killed the postwar social contract, but its demise was long in the making. To protect science as a public good, we need a different approach.

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

As many liberal arts institutions face crisis and potential closure, a new ecosystem of microcolleges is emerging.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

China has established the first scheduled transit through the northern sea route, but questions remain over the environmental and political risks

Especially since the arrival of LLMs, there are quite a few pieces that claim “writing is thinking” or portray writing as thinking in a certain way (even nature featured a piece on it). The idea is…

Dieses Open Access Buch widmet sich Leben und Wirkung von Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), einem der bedeutendsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

Given the dense history of the American West, nearly unexplored in its most fundamental aspects and poten­tially the richest of American myths, why has there not emerged a modern novelist of the fi…

From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits

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We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

In this paper I point to different features and cases of scientific inquiry that suggest the relevance of a broad pattern of negativism. I have noted the role in categories of description and more nor...

Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface

ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...