Talks That Attendees See in Person More Likely to Be Cited(nature.com)

57 points by belter 3 years ago | 38 comments

Neuroscientists must not be afraid to study religion(nature.com)

17 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 9 comments

MDMA therapy for PTSD rejected by FDA panel(nature.com)

5 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 1 comments

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind Covid(nature.com)

21 points by rntn 1 year ago | 15 comments

US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low(nature.com)

46 points by jedwhite 3 years ago | 18 comments

China overtakes United States on contribution to research in Nature Index(nature.com)

34 points by eunos 3 years ago | 35 comments

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research(insidemedicine.substack.com)

748 points by KittenInABox 1 year ago | 513 comments

Inside Medicine Substack post by Jeremy Faust reporting that the CDC ordered retraction or revision of submitted manuscripts containing banned terms like gender and LGBT.

CDC data are disappearing(theatlantic.com)

614 points by doener 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Atlantic article by Katherine J. Wu reporting that the CDC has removed scientific data from public view, with more removals possibly to follow.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.