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Saturday Citations: Failure to launch; cellular mortality; heavy weather
Highlights from the last week of May, 2026: A key climate tipping point is disrupting the Arctic Ocean food chain... Read more -
New 'AI scientists' are improving—but reveal their fundamental limits
Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialized knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must... Read more -
Saturday citations: Two T. rexes and new exercise guidance that scientists are not calling 'easy'
John Hammond voice: "Welcome... to Saturday Citations." We're talking about different types of T. rexes today, along with some unwelcome... Read more -
What do the Commonwealth Writers Prize AI allegations mean for prizes—and short stories?
Another day, another literary scandal involving AI. It has been alleged that the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize... Read more -
We asked US researchers how the Trump administration's science policies have affected them
The American academic research engine has long been the envy of the world. Generally well-funded, labs in the United States... Read more -
Encroaching world threatens India's last 'uncontacted' tribe
One of the last outsiders to make authorized visits to India's only "uncontacted" tribe says it may be time to... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Prehistoric dentistry; sleep and aging; our photogenic sun
This week in science news: Are you a mosquito magnet? Here's why. Researchers using topological mathematics have uncovered a hidden... Read more -
British scientists among winners of top Spanish award
British chemists David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian joined French biophysicist Pascal Mayer in winning Spain's top science award on Wednesday... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Psychedelic therapeutics; interoception and well-being; a hidden linguistic bias
This week, researchers reported that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state during... Read more -
From flying discs to glowing orbs, these newly opened Pentagon files point somewhere stranger than expected
The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects—some dating back... Read more -
How missing information can misinform
Readers don't need false information to get the wrong idea. In the online attention economy, UC San Diego research finds... Read more -
Human language shows deep safety bias, challenging 70-year scientific consensus
Researchers at the University of Vermont have uncovered a powerful new insight about how language works—one that overturns a cornerstone... Read more -
Saturday Citations: In spaaa-aaace!
We're focusing on space news this week, but we did cover the usual amount of local news down here in... Read more -
A leading journal finds that AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work
Artificial intelligence can undoubtedly help scientists with their academic papers by summarizing research and helping to improve writing. However, one... Read more -
'A study showed…' isn't enough—scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers revisit questions
Your goofy but lovable cousin just told you that you should stop eating eggs because he read somewhere that a... Read more
