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When Lauren Jager, a chemistry undergraduate at Idaho State University, submitted her personal statement for a scholarship, it was written entirely by her. She ran it through an online AI detector anyway, out of curiosity. It came back at nearly 100% AI-generated. “I started freaking out,” she told Nature. Jager’s experience is not unusual. The […]

On July 5, 1996, a lamb was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland that would change biology forever. She was not remarkable in appearance, a white-faced Finn Dorset with a placid temperament. But she was the first mammal ever cloned from an adult somatic cell, a feat that had been dismissed as biologically impossible […]

The booming market for online GLP-1 prescriptions is built on convenience: a few clicks, a brief questionnaire, and a month’s supply of a weight-loss drug arrives at your door. But a new secret shopper study published July 6 in JAMA reveals how little clinical oversight many of those prescriptions involve. Researchers at Yale University posed […]

For twenty years, computer scientists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: can a quantum computer verify solutions to problems that a classical computer cannot even describe? The answer, it turns out, is yes, and the proof is 96 pages long. A team of four researchers, John Bostanci (Simons Institute / Columbia), Jonas Haferkamp (Ruhr […]

Psoriasis affects more than 125 million people worldwide, and while biologic therapies that block the IL-17 pathway have transformed treatment, they remain expensive, require injection, and suppress the immune system systemically. A new study published in Nature Communications on July 6 opens the door to a different approach: topical creams that achieve the same effect […]

At a collapsed limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkiye, nearly 20,000 stone artifacts tell a remarkable story of continuity. Layer after layer, across a 30,000-year span that covers both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens occupations, the technology stays the same. The raw materials are the same. Even the seashells they chose to collect […]

The Sun released a powerful X1.3-class solar flare on the afternoon of July 4, peaking at 4:41 p.m. Eastern Time (20:41 UTC), NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory confirmed. The flare originated from a newly emerged sunspot region designated AR4482 on the Sun’s southeast limb. X-class flares are the most intense category on the solar flare scale, […]

At a collapsed limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkiye, nearly 20,000 stone artifacts tell a remarkable story of continuity. Layer after layer, across a 30,000-year span that covers both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens occupations, the technology stays the same. The raw materials are the same. Even the seashells they chose to collect […]

The Sun released a powerful X1.3-class solar flare on the afternoon of July 4, peaking at 4:41 p.m. Eastern Time (20:41 UTC), NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory confirmed. The flare originated from a newly emerged sunspot region designated AR4482 on the Sun’s southeast limb. X-class flares are the most intense category on the solar flare scale, […]

Philosophy journals have no uniform conflict-of-interest policies. A researcher can publish a paper on AI ethics while serving as a paid consultant for an AI company, and readers, and editors, would have no structured way to know. A new open letter released July 1 by professors Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine) and Craig Callender (UC San […]