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A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.

Sadly, I can’t seem to find the full, non paywalled version of the article ._.

Physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues have twice claimed to make a room-temperature superconductor. But many researchers question the evidence.

cross-posted from !aistuff

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....

Just ran into a link to this article from another medium. While I realize this is speculations, it’s still a summary of models that look at the risk of concurrent global crop failures....

As US policymakers spar over how to regulate research involving potentially harmful pathogens, a report finds that it will be difficult to do so without compromising studies that are necessary for creating vaccines and life-saving therapies....

As deadly heatwaves become more common, researchers are studying what the human body can tolerate.

The commercial success of RNA vaccines for COVID-19 has revved up interest in circular RNAs as the next generation of therapies. This is because linear RNA molecules have a fleeting existence inside cells-which is not a problem for it’s function as vaccine, but for other therapeutic applications longer existence is preferable....

The International Astronomical Union clarified changes to its code of conduct after researchers voiced concern that it protected harassers.

The professional athlete and research technician explains why focus, collaboration and teamwork are important on and off the pitch.

The major engineering scheme aims to interlink several Indian rivers to support irrigation....

Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention....

Rich, high-fat foods such as ice cream are loved not only for their taste, but also for the physical sensations they produce in the mouth — their ‘mouthfeel’. Now scientists have identified a brain area that both responds to the smooth texture of fatty foods and uses that information to rate the morsel’s allure, guiding...

‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low....