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17h ago
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Trump rejects AI regulation, citing parallels with climate change, in U.N. address
The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”
scientificamerican
22h ago
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Mathematicians use AI to find mysterious symmetries, solving decades-old problem
In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of one “inverse Galois problem”
scientificamerican
47h ago
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Space weapons, AI safety concerns and the EPA’s rollback of power plant emission rules
From orbital weapons to AI risks and weaker emissions rules
scientificamerican
19h ago
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This year’s El Niño just broke another sobering record
“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says
scientificamerican
13h ago
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Scientists discover largest new impact crater in the solar system ever—on our moon
The crater, named after geologist and lunar surface expert Tom McGetchin, spans more than two football fields wide
scientificamerican
37h ago
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What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science
Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science
scientificamerican
41h ago
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Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?
OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole
scientificamerican
22h ago
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NASA Goddard’s shrinking workforce could stifle future space missions, experts say
2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA’s space science—may never recover
scientificamerican
18h ago
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RFK, Jr., is focusing attention on electromagnetic fields. Here’s what the science says about exposure
The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by low-quality studies
scientificamerican
15h ago
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Why mathematicians are hiding research results in zero-knowledge proofs
Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired