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Genesis Mission: why Trump’s plan to put AIs in charge of science could backfire

AI enthusiasts are right that projects like AlphaFold are a huge leap forward, but the philosophy of science shows why excluding humans undermines it.
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Student, faculty researchers explore how AI can improve STEM learning through virtual reality

Many students struggle to understand complex STEM concepts because lectures and textbooks often make science difficult to ...

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

The pipeline that nurtures the next generation of young scientists is at risk

These breakthroughs remind us that scientific advancement depends on nurturing a full pipeline of scientists — from young ...
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Sophia Greene and Dr. Claudia Fernandes: A broken pipeline — costing us our next generation of scientists

Science has always relied on young innovators to drive progress. In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still PhD students, founded Google. More recently, in 2020 and 2021, Kizzmekia Corbett, then a ...
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The Genesis Mission: How the US plans to rebuild scientific discovery with AI

T he United States has announced the Genesis Mission, an exhaustive government-led effort to rebuild the country’s scientific ...

What we can learn from watching 100,000 animals in unbelievable detail—from space

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...
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Bay Area laboratories join national effort to use AI platform for scientific advancement

THREE NATIONAL LABORATORIES in the Bay Area will participate in the Genesis Mission, a federal program aimed at accelerating scientific innovation and discovery through the use of artificial ...