SCIENCE

25 winners of math’s ‘Nobel Prize’ decry the AI invasion of their discipline

Top mathematicians are increasingly pushing back against the tech industry’s artificial-intelligence-powered incursion into their field.A statement released last Friday and…

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How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope

October 11, 20255 min readThe Math That Predicted the New PopeA decades-old technique from network science saw something in the…

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Birds Went Silent during the Great North American Eclipse—Here’s What Researchers Discovered

When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in…

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Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia,…

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Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to Be a Scientist

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was…

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Is Tylenol Safe for Children? What Research Shows About Acetaminophen

President Trump blasted followers on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday with this dire warning: “Don’t give Tylenol…

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Lab-Grown Organoids Could Transform Female Reproductive Medicine

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK,…

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What Is Leucovorin, the Unproven Autism Drug Backed by Trump Officials?

According to Martin Makary, head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the drug leucovorin will help “hundreds of…

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2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy Bats and Pasta Physics

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the…

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New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone May Develop in 20 Years

September 18, 20253 min readNew AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone May Develop in 20 YearsA large language…

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