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fromFast Company
16 hours ago

AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren't keeping up

AI is autonomously designing and running biological experiments, outpacing current governance systems meant to regulate these capabilities.
fromNature
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Artificial intelligence is generating non-existent academic references, leading to hallucinated citations in scholarly publications.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
16 hours ago

AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren't keeping up

AI is autonomously designing and running biological experiments, outpacing current governance systems meant to regulate these capabilities.
Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 week ago

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Artificial intelligence is generating non-existent academic references, leading to hallucinated citations in scholarly publications.
fromTechCrunch
38 minutes ago

Inertia moves to commercialize one of the world's most elaborate science experiments | TechCrunch

Inertia Enterprises burst onto the scene in February with a $450 million Series A, making it one of the best capitalized startups in the industry, aiming to bring laser-based fusion reactors to market.
Science
OMG science
fromNature
1 day ago

Viruses allegedly stolen from high-security lab cause stir in Brazil

A researcher was arrested in Brazil for allegedly stealing virus samples from a high-security laboratory, raising concerns in the virology community.
fromNature
1 day ago

Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way

The study says that these researchers represent almost 80% of all 'late career' scientists - people who have at least 25 years of experience in publishing academic articles - in the world.
Careers
Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Traceability is vital': labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze

The underground market for injectable peptides in the UK has surged, with thousands of unregulated substances being tested for safety and efficacy.
Science
fromNature
5 days ago

Daily briefing: A treatment to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in people

Partial reprogramming may enter clinical trials soon, and a DNA tweak can induce sex reversal in female mice.
#ai
Medicine
fromFast Company
1 week ago

AI is coming for superbugs

AI can significantly enhance antibiotic discovery, addressing the urgent global health crisis of antibiotic resistance.
Science
fromNature
2 weeks ago

How to build an AI Scientist: first peer-reviewed paper spills the secrets

AI Scientist automates the entire scientific process, from idea generation to paper writing, and has undergone peer review.
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

5 Biotechs That Big Pharma Could Snap Up as Oncology M&A Heats Up

Incyte tops this list due to its rare combination of commercial scale, cash generation, and pipeline depth. The company posted FY2025 revenue of $5.14 billion, up 21.2% YoY, anchored by Jakafi generating $828.2 million in Q4 2025 alone (+7% YoY) and Opzelura delivering $207.3 million (+28% YoY). With $3.58 billion in cash and 14 pivotal clinical trials underway, Incyte offers an acquirer immediate revenue, margin expansion potential, and a deep oncology pipeline spanning KRASG12D, CDK2 inhibition, and mutCALR.
Venture
OMG science
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Raccoons exhibit flexible problem-solving skills, thriving in human environments by successfully navigating complex puzzles.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
2 weeks ago

Block of Citations Tested Beneath AI Overview Summary

The format has ginormous link cards at the bottom of the AI summary, which include a thumbnail of no apparent value, the site name, favicon, description, and title.
Typography
Data science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

How I squeeze fresh science from public data

Utilizing existing data can lead to significant discoveries and collaborations in research.
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Now is the time for scientific societies to guide global research

Modern scientific societies are increasingly vulnerable due to their dependence on membership fees and journal subscriptions, which are being challenged by the rise of virtual networking and open-access publishing.
Science
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Creativity of Science: How We Discover New Things

Psychological research requires creativity to design studies, develop explanations, and provide practical recommendations.
Humor
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Why scientists can't get a laugh | TechCrunch

Most scientists struggle with humor in presentations, with only 9% successfully making audiences laugh.
Science
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution

Eve, an AI-powered robotic platform, automates early-stage drug design, significantly enhancing efficiency in scientific research.
#cloning
OMG science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
OMG science
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Cloning mice for 58 generations led to immediate death of offspring, revealing limits to mammalian cloning.
OMG science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

Asexual reproduction in mice is unsustainable due to accumulating mutations, limiting the potential for successful cloning.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

Why Some Scientific Debates Never End

Complex questions involving values cannot be definitively settled by evidence alone, as different priorities lead experts to emphasize different findings from the same data.
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Tech bills of the week: Improved biological data for research; Section 702 reform; and more

Ushering in the Golden Age of Innovation is about more than just winning the global tech race - it's about securing the safety and prosperity of our country for generations to come. Our bill is an important step in this effort and will better ensure the United States has the infrastructure in place to lead the 21st century.
EU data protection
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
Artificial intelligence
fromEntrepreneur
4 weeks ago

Why AI Made Me a Faster Researcher - Not a Lazier One

AI accelerates research mechanics like data sorting and literature reviews, but human judgment remains essential for determining relevance and driving meaningful insights.
Coronavirus
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Scientists discover clue in viruses that reveal if they were lab-made

A new study analyzing seven viral outbreaks found no unusual genetic changes in Covid or most viruses before emergence, supporting a natural zoonotic origin rather than lab creation.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Zombieland: Genome transplant brings 'dead' bacteria back to life

Researchers have revived 'dead' bacterial cells by replacing their DNA with a working genome from another species, advancing genome engineering.
OMG science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Scientists Recruit Undergrad to Step Into Room Filled With Ravenous Mosquitoes for "Full-Body Massacre"

Georgia Tech's study reveals how mosquitoes select prey, demonstrating their behavior changes based on visual and chemical cues from targets.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
1 month ago

AI Mode Tests Ask About Element in Citations

Google AI mode has added an 'Ask about this' option above the sources where all URLs are displayed. Clicking on 'Ask about' here automatically pulled a new prompt into the search box.
Artificial intelligence
Science
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After "Cryosleep" Deep Freeze

Researchers are advancing towards cryosleep by restoring activity in mouse brains using vitrification, potentially aiding organ preservation and brain injury recovery.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Synthetic circuits for cell ratio control - Nature

Synthetic biology enables artificial cell differentiation and division of labor by engineering genetic and epigenetic circuits that mimic natural stem cell asymmetric division processes.
Science
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Daily briefing: How labs are coping with 'RAMmageddon'

Global RAM chip shortage driven by AI demand forces researchers to innovate with more efficient algorithms and hardware, with supply recovery expected in 18+ months.
Science
fromScienceDaily
1 month ago

A lab mistake at Cambridge reveals a powerful new way to modify drug molecules

Cambridge researchers developed an LED-powered photochemical technique that enables late-stage modification of complex drug molecules without toxic chemicals or metal catalysts, accelerating drug development.
UK politics
fromNature
1 month ago

Don't deprioritize curiosity-driven research

Government-directed shifts in research funding risk undermining curiosity-driven, investigator-led science that generates fundamental knowledge and long-term innovation.
OMG science
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

Scientists revived Edison's nickel-iron battery design using protein scaffolding and graphene oxide, creating an aerogel structure for improved renewable energy storage with extended range and longevity.
Writing
fromNature
2 months ago

Three tips for scientific writing: a guide for graduate students

Break large writing projects into specific, actionable tasks, use prompts, structure, and accountability to reduce blank-page dread and sustain progress.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas - in numbers

bioRxiv has grown to over 310,000 preprints since 2013, with neuroscientists as top users and monthly submissions reaching 4,000 by 2025, demonstrating widespread acceptance of preprint publishing in scientific research.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

FBI Raids Mysterious Biological Lab

We don't know what exactly investigators found or whether they are in any way harmful. However, we do have an intriguing clue. The property was linked to Jia Bei Zhu, a 62-year-old Chinese citizen who was arrested in October 2023 on charges of manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices and making false statements to the FDA, according to NBC News.
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Public health
fromNature
2 months ago

Six highlights from lung-health research

AI models combining sensor, satellite, traffic, and weather data can substantially improve air-quality forecasting and warnings but face data, transferability, interpretability, and energy-cost limitations.
Books
fromNature
2 months ago

Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief

Microscopy uncovered microbes and cellular anatomy; biosemiotics connects life and sign systems; memory constitutes both reader and read of personal identity.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Daily briefing: 'Virtual cell' simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing

Researchers created a 3D virtual bacterial cell simulation modeling DNA replication, cell division, and chemical reactions to understand how molecular interactions generate life.
Medicine
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

A living drug manages to eliminate tumors in mice with pancreatic, ovarian and kidney cancer

An ultrasensitive CAR-T cell therapy successfully eliminated solid tumors in laboratory mice by targeting the CD70 protein at previously undetectable levels.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Daily briefing: Protein folding caught in real time

Scientists directly measured individual protein folding times and found no relationship between protein sequence or size and folding duration, revealing unexpected complexity in protein behavior.
#academic-publishing
fromNature
2 months ago
Public health

I'm going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

fromNature
2 months ago
Public health

I'm going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

fromNature
2 months ago

Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook

It quickly became apparent that their duties as principal investigators far exceeded the bench skills that they'd learnt as postdocs.
Higher education
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How one chemist is using AI and robots to automate lab experiments

AI-driven laboratory automation like Coscientist accelerates chemistry by reducing repetitive work, improving accuracy, and enabling experiments previously limited by human error or fatigue.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

Scientists who self-retract papers due to honest mistakes maintain citation rates and receive community support, suggesting shifting attitudes toward retractions as responsible scientific practice rather than career-damaging misconduct.
Science
fromBig Think
1 month ago

The right way to be a scientific contrarian

Scientific advancement occurs through incremental improvements and revolutionary paradigm shifts that replace foundational understanding with entirely new conceptions of natural phenomena.
fromNature
2 months ago

NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments - spurring excitement and concern

Many researchers are surprised and relieved over an unusual step taken by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH): the agency is rolling back the red tape on a host of basic-science experiments that involved human participants and had been classified as clinical trials. The decision, which was announced on 29 January and is part of a broader NIH effort to reduce administrative burden, should free such research from the heavy bureaucratic requirements that are designed for clinical trials but are sometimes ill-suited to other fields, such as basic psychology and behavioural studies.
Medicine
fromNature
2 months ago

This AI has chemical expertise - and helps synthesize 35 new drugs and materials

Now, researchers have created an artificial-intelligence system that vastly simplifies and accelerates the process of chemical synthesis. The system, which is called MOSAIC and is described in a study published in Nature on 19 January, recommended conditions that researchers were able to use to generate 35 compounds with the potential to become products like pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals or cosmetics without needing to do any further trawling or tweaking.
Artificial intelligence
Medicine
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The very long road from a cancer cure' in mice to one in humans

Promising mouse cancer cures often fail to become safe, effective human drugs; premature media claims can create false patient expectations and hinder responsible research progress.
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

The amazing cases of 9 people "cured" of HIV each contain clues about a possible cure - LGBTQ Nation

For more than a decade, doctors and researchers have announced that a handful of people around the world have been cured of HIV. Each of these patients has experienced long-term viral control - in some cases for over a decade - without antiretroviral therapy (ART), as AIDSMap notes, though some doctors describe them as being in "remission." While the patients have shown no signs of HIV since stopping ART, at least some uncertainty remains as to whether the virus could eventually rebound in them.
Medicine
Medicine
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Scientists shed new light on the brain's role in heart attack

Disabling a specific brain-to-immune neural circuit in mice dramatically reduces heart attack injury, indicating neural control of inflammation can alter cardiac outcomes.
Science
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed

Mineral fingerprinting and zircon analysis indicate humans transported Stonehenge stones from distant quarries, not glaciers.
fromNature
1 month ago

The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies on dogs should be slashed by 2030. The long-term vision is 'a world where the use of animals in science is eliminated in all but exceptional circumstances'.
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Science
fromNature
1 month ago

How to wow a popular-science writer with your research expertise

Effective science communication requires researchers to explain work accurately yet comprehensibly, balancing writers' narrative goals with scientists' commitment to precise truth.
fromNature
2 months ago

'It means I can sleep at night': how sensors are helping to solve scientists' problems

In fact, Stawicki was on a mission to save the lives of around 1,000 zebrafish ( Danio rerio) in her laboratory. Similarities between lines of hair cells on the fish's flanks and those in the mammalian inner ear enable her to use them as a model to study hearing problems in humans caused by some antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs. A sensor had picked up that the lab's heating system had been knocked out by a power fault.
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Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Daily briefing: Automated robot 'scientists' spark debate over the future of lab work

Autonomous AI-controlled lab robots can automate simple tasks but current limitations mean many laboratory procedures still require human dexterity and judgment.
Science
fromNature Partnerships
2 months ago

Promote your products to scientists | Nature Partnerhships

Reach over 43 million monthly users across Nature, Springer, BMC, and Scientific American to target scientists, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and engaged readers.
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fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Scalable and multiplexed recorders of gene regulation dynamics across weeks

CytoTape enables multiplexed, genetically encoded, spatiotemporally scalable recording of gene regulation dynamics in single cells for up to three weeks with minute-scale resolution.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Why every scientist needs a librarian

Academic libraries have transformed into dynamic research hubs offering expert librarianship, technologies, coding, maker spaces, and data support that accelerate scientific research.
Science
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Scientists use AI to create a virus never seen before

Scientists used AI and gene-assembly tools to create Evo-Φ2147, a novel 11-gene virus designed to kill pathogenic E. coli.
fromNature
1 month ago

Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts

Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical sciences to tackle the reproducibility crisis, researchers in France and the Netherlands are offering funds and resources in exchange for a few months of work. "We are trying to use
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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Science Is Learning to Explore Ground Truth

Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.
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Science
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

Author Correction: An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of inorganic materials

Prediction platform correctly identified 36 of 40 synthesized compounds; four were inconclusive, and novelty claims were clarified as 'new to the prediction platform', not new to science.
Science
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How to Evaluate Research Articles and AI Information

Assess rival hypotheses and researcher/experimental effects because expectations, cues, and context can bias outcomes and misattribute causality.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known

Jeffrey Epstein had extensive, previously underreported ties to the scientific community, investing and socializing with numerous researchers, revealed by millions of newly released investigative files.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

'Remote controlled' proteins illuminate living cells

Engineered magnetically sensitive fluorescent proteins enable remote modulation of brightness in cells and animals, offering quantum-based control for biosensors and potential therapies.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals and the Need for Reform

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with kindness, depending on the questions at hand and the values and attitudes of the researchers themselves. The lives of these animals truly are hidden, and most people are incredulous when they learn that laboratory rats and mice still are not considered "animals" under the current federal Animal Welfare Act.
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Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Marvellous microbes, memory and the multiverse: Books in brief

Leeuwenhoek's microscopic discoveries illuminated microbes and cells; biosemiotics links human and nonhuman sign systems; memory entwines the remembering and the remembered.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

Martschenko's argument is largely that genetic research and data have almost always been used thus far as a justification to further entrench extant social inequalities. But we know the solutions to many of the injustices in our world-trying to lift people out of poverty, for example-and we certainly don't need more genetic research to implement them. Trejo's point is largely that more information is generally better than less.
Science
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Scientists develop universal vaccine to protect against allergies, cold and flu

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
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fromNature
1 month ago

Pop-up journals for policy research: can temporary titles deliver answers?

I'm less interested in topics than in questions, and I'm less interested in publishing than I am in curation. When I've testified before Congress or dealt with an appropriations bill or a budget negotiation, this question, of what is the return on investments when you're doing R&D, comes up quite often. It's been asked by economists in very formal ways since at least the 1950s, but the data and the methods that were available were really not very strong.
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Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions - Nature

DNA writing remains limited by short oligo synthesis and two-way junction assembly methods, hindering affordable, scalable construction of large, complex synthetic DNA.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature

OpenScholar is an open, retrieval-augmented system integrating a 45 million-paper datastore, trained retrievers, and iterative self-feedback to generate cited, up-to-date scientific literature syntheses.
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