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Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science
In just the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration embarked on making radical changes to US science.…
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ten galvanizing reads for this festive season
Why Brains Need Friends Ben Rein Bridge Street (2024) Have you ever chosen between answering a friend’s phone call and…
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Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now
Food prices are increasing almost everywhere. Disruptions and declines in food production owing to climate extremes are part of the…
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AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?
More than 60% of researchers surveyed about AI say they use it for work.Credit: MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Getty…
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The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health
For decades, neuroscientists focused almost exclusively on only half of the cells in the brain. Neurons were the main players,…
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Laser cooling traps more antimatter atoms than ever before
Researchers have trapped more atoms of antimatter more quickly than ever before — a potentially transformative step in elucidating the…
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Major AI conference flooded with peer-reviews written fully by AI
An AI-detection tool developed by Pangram labs found that peer reviewers are increasingly using chatbots to draft responses to authors.Credit:…
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Why the global economic system should value life on our planet, not exploit it
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Partha Dasgupta Witness (2025) An economist might celebrate a nation…
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How to defuse a time bomb
I swung up to the Cloudberry Tower in a hot morning drizzle. You could see the place was on the…
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a true measure of what matters in academia
Credit: Adapted from Getty More than half a century ago, information scientist Derek De Solla Price observed that the scientific…
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