SCIENCE
Daily briefing: Why it’s hard to show insight under pressure
You have full access to this article via your institution. Acute stress makes it difficult to connect memories of past e...
Hard-to-detect mutations explain how common autoimmune diseases arise
Mutations that are acquired throughout life, known as somatic mutations, are perhaps best known for their role in cancer...
Innovation starts in schools — lessons from China
In early 2025, the Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou, unveiled DeepSeek-R1, a high-per...
Iran’s Internet blackout: a scholar’s month in the dark
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Poland’s economy is thriving, but its science is dying
Poland has a flourishing economy, but its science funding is at an unprecedented low — only 1.1% of the country’s gross ...
Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work
In a biology laboratory in Tokyo, ten robots conduct experiments, using their two arms to handle liquids, grow cells on ...
Should there be a national museum of chemicals?
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Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era?
In April, the artificial-intelligence firm Anthropic announced it had made an AI model too dangerous to be released to t...
When the grid can’t keep up: how South African laboratories handle power outages
As a scheduled blackout hits in the afternoon heat of Makhanda, it elicits a moment of crisis inside the National Resear...
Why AI can’t be trusted to write scientific reviews
Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the Lond...