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'Health impacts are being felt in real time': How the CDC is being decimated by the Trump administration
Opinion The CDC's current crisis has been building since Trump's first week in office and boiled over after Kennedy fired the agency's newly appointed director.
When China makes a climate pledge, the world should listen
Opinion Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world's attention is elsewhere.
'I honestly am not sure on this at all': Poll reveals public uncertainty over experimenting on conscious lab-grown 'minibrains'
Hundreds of readers responded to our poll asking if it would be OK to experiment on lab-grown "brains" if they became conscious.
Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it
Opinion Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.
Ancient Hobbits slowed down growth during childhood, showing that humans didn't always grow 'bigger and bigger brains'
Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
OpenAI has published a new paper identifying why ChatGPT is prone to making things up. Unfortunately, the problem may be unfixable.
Fossil of huge penguin that lived 3 million years ago discovered in New Zealand — what happened to it?
The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.
Dangers of falling birth rates in the US have been 'dramatically overstated,' experts say
Opinion While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
