The co-founder of SCIMaP looks at the year of NIH cuts — and what they say about the future of American research.

It's true Oura partners with Palantir Technologies, a software company that serves the U.S. government. But some claims about ...

A preprint argues that symptom scores in psychology are not neutral data but active interventions that shape care.

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

ZDNET's key takeaways Successful AI projects are built on strong foundations. Find the value, measure it, and discuss aims ...

Amid enormous shifts, many scientists pushed back and risked dismissal from their jobs even as federal agencies fired ...

Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.

It’s not some ancient ritual described in a Dr. John song. The earbones collected through a quick slice to the head have revealed a wealth of information on the secret lives of speckled trout, redfish ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

An AI scientist can work independently for hours while doing research that would take humans months to complete, and has made several “novel contributions” to science, its creators claim – but others ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

The industry believes AI will work its way into every corner of our lives, and so needs to build sufficient capacity to address that anticipated demand. But the hardware used to make AI work is so ...