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Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has reported on replication in ...

Penn economics professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde said he used AI to replicate a master's-level course in just 12 hours.Courtesy of Jesús Fernández-Villaverde What would normally take a week in a ...

Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? Humans have a highly complex brain and, ...

According to the RNA world hypothesis, life began when RNA molecules evolved the ability to make more copies of themselves. Now we have discovered an RNA molecule that is almost capable of this – it ...

Reddit's revenue is soaring as its user base expands and engagement rises. With internet users distrustful of AI summaries in search results, Reddit is carving out a role as a key source of trusted ...

Scientific progress depends on results that can be repeated – yet across disciplines, too many experiments fail that test. From medicine to economics, the replication crisis reveals not just flawed ...

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of significant leadership hirings, firings and retirings across the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Darren ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

Cloudflare (NET) announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Replicate, which will give developers on its Workers platform access to tens of thousands of artificial intelligence models. Replicate ...