Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs(news.liverpool.ac.uk)

57 points by gnufx 1 year ago | 14 comments

New study sheds light on the origin of animals(ox.ac.uk)

32 points by hhs 3 years ago | 15 comments

Farmed salmon production leads to an overall loss of essential dietary nutrients(cam.ac.uk)

11 points by Breadmaker 2 years ago | 12 comments

Trilobites killed by volcanic ash(bristol.ac.uk)

131 points by geox 2 years ago | 21 comments

Eating Fossils(palass.org)

34 points by aduffy 3 years ago | 8 comments

30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland(bristol.ac.uk)

125 points by clouddrover 2 years ago | 108 comments

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.

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.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

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.

New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden(nature.com)

401 points by ascorbic 1 year ago | 280 comments

Nature news article about a new antibiotic molecule, found in soil from a technician's garden, that kills drug-resistant bacteria via a novel mechanism.

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.