Museums and libraries around the world hold hundreds of thousands of ancient inscriptions and more than a million papyrus...

Japanese researchers have developed an AI system that identifies and counts visible plastic debris in deep-sea footage, cutting review time by more than half.

In the book “How AI Sees the City,” MIT researchers examine implications of using visual AI to study urban life. Across cities, more images means more data, more insight — and more concerns about priv...

Collective intelligence depends not only on what team members know, but also on how they organize their work. When the structure of a solution is unknown, useful roles and divisions of labor cannot be...

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

The new Energy Materials Acceleration Platform (E-MAP) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) enables a systematic examination, evaluation, and targeted refining of thousands of material varia...

Biomimetic deep-learned model predictive control enables insect-like aerobatics and flight robustness in a 750-mg robot.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Farmers’ adaptation and mitigation choices under climate change: evidence from a mixed-methods survey in the Western Himalayas

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Exploring the potential of large language models for public participation in urban redevelopment planning

The sauropod Diplodocus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs, with fossils traditionally known from the Morrison Formation (U.S.A.; Kimmeridgian–Tithonian). Here, we describe a new diplodocid specim...

Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...

Previous research has examined the impact of informal caregiving on labour market participation and health, but findings remain inconclusive, often due to endogeneity problems. This study aims to adva...

Charred papyrus scrolls from a library inundated by volcanic ash in 79 C.E. are largely unreadable. UC Berkeley scientists teamed up to create and burn their own scrolls to test a new way to decipher ...

Using mass photometry combined with a single-molecule trapping method allows real-time monitoring of the assembly of individual virus-like particles with molecular resolution, enabling observation and...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has warned that artificial intelligence could be "dangerous" if not properly managed, and urged Democrats to frame ​policy and governance agendas to tackle the issue...

The public debate heated up after two Anthropic researchers warned ​that the technology could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future.

Amodei warns safeguards are lagging behind AI capabilities.

Fluorine waste streams pose environmental challenges and containing valuable fluorine resources. Here the authors develop a flash-encapsulated fluorination process that transforms waste fluorine into ...

Letters: Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Jane Roland Martin respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology

Scientific Reports - Probabilistic tsunami fragility: an uncertainty-aware framework for disaggregated building damage estimation

Nature Biotechnology - AI-guided design of complete bacteriophage genomes

Viewing appearance-focussed social media (e.g., thinspiration, fitspiration, body positivity) is associated with increased self-objectification in women. However, it is unclear how increases in self-o...

Seaweed forests are widely viewed as natural climate solutions, yet warming oceans are driving their rapid decline. This Essay reveals that losses are outpacing restoration efforts by orders of magnit...

Large theropod tracks are uncommon within the Hell Creek Formation with trackways being exceedingly rare. Until recently the tracks and trackways that have been associated with non-Tyrannosaurus ty...

War threatens scientific continuity by severing the mentorship networks that reproduce expertise. The Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School, held in person in western Ukraine each year since...

This chapter explores the role of alternative epistemic authorities who challenge and blur conventional boundaries of knowledge within liberal democratic contexts. Primarily operating on social media,...

IPO-bound Enflame's 1400% quarterly revenue ‌growth highlights the progress China's chipmaking upstarts are making against Nvidia. By developing their own software and easing ​migration from the US ti...

Bavaria-based Isar Aerospace managed to launch its Spectrum rocket into orbit, 18 months after its first attempt. This is the first such launch from European soil.

This article develops a sociological account of emotions as lines: dynamic processes that unfold over time, undergo interruptions, intensifications, and transformations, and become entangled with othe...

People can form emotional bonds with AI companions. Using two AI product updates as natural experiments and combining with survey evidence, De Freitas et al. show that changes to AI companions can eli...

The deal, one of Nvidia's biggest ever, will potentially help it create a pipeline of customers that may buy its processors ​to run AI services.

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Working-class subjectivities in contemporary Britain are shaped not only by past violence but also by the looming prospect of lawful expropriation: eviction, debt enforcement, and state-enforced child...

The climate crisis not only transforms ecosystems but also reshapes collective imaginaries of the future. While climate fiction (cli-fi) has emerged as a crucial site where societies process the unpre...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Identifying key behavioural determinants and intervention spaces in policymakers’ climate adaptation decision-making

IntroductionMigrant women's opportunities for active aging, understood through the World Health Organization framework of health, participation, and security...

Earlier this month, the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs published an article largely written by an AI. The article was described as an experiment by the philosopher who submitted it, Simon Goldste...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Familial forests: kincentric ecology in the poetry of indigenous Australian writer Jack Davis

Although, as in the rest of Europe, there is no precise data on the number of non-returnable migrants, in Italy an estimated 80% of third-country nationals w...

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

High sea surface temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks and damage coral reefs.

A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment

Scholars in the field of intergroup relations agree that discrimination is a dynamic process with causes and consequences. However, the way in which related ...

Four researchers born after 1997 describe how they stay motivated and cultivate resilience during difficult times.

This cohort study of Black and White women with epithelial ovarian cancer examines whether residential context is associated with racial disparities in survival of patients with epithelial ovarian can...

The recovery of late-summer Chukchi Sea ice over 2020–2024 was driven by a poleward-shifted Pacific–Arctic cyclonic anomaly that enhanced cooling and delayed seasonal thinning, according to a study co...

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.