Unlocking science: building AI researchers can trust

Over half of researchers now say they use AI tools in their work, but only two in ten believe generic AI tools are trustworthy. [...]

The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next. [...]

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens. [...]

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

  ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban autho [...]

Searching for Cancer Cures Is Part of Google's AI Story. It Deserves to Be More Than a Footnote

Commentary: Forget "Ask YouTube." Google should prioritize the AI work it's doing in science. [...]

I turned my Android phone into a 35-tool science kit with one free app - and started testing everything

Phyphox can do so much that explaining it all would take hours. The real fun starts once you begin testing the world around you. [...]

All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing. [...]

Chicks hatched from artificial eggshells, a new mission to study Earth's magnetosphere and more science stories

This week's science news. [...]

How AI inhibits our curiosity, and what to do to regain it, according to science

When answers are instantly available, prepackaged, and delivered with confidence, the motivation to explore diminishes. [...]