Topic: scientific collaboration
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Open Science in Cybersecurity: Real-World Impact
Scientific research environments prioritize system availability over strict confidentiality, requiring a fundamental shift from standard enterprise cybersecurity models to balance data protection with global collaboration. A key challenge is securing legacy and custom-built scientific infrastruct...
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OpenAI Backs Sam Altman's Brain-Computer Startup Merge Labs
OpenAI has made a major strategic investment in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup founded by its CEO Sam Altman, placing it in direct competition with ventures like Neuralink. Merge Labs is pursuing non-invasive neural technology, aiming to connect with neurons using molecules instea...
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OpenAI Unveils Prism: AI Workspace for Scientific Research
OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI-powered scientific workspace integrated with ChatGPT that uses GPT-5.2 to assist with tasks like literature review and writing, positioning it as an accelerator for research rather than an autonomous tool. The tool is designed to speed up scientific discovery ...
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How Your Brain Sees What Isn't There
Our brains actively construct visual reality through illusory contours, a phenomenon where we perceive shapes and edges that don't physically exist, revealing neural circuitry's role beyond passive recording. Recent research identified specialized neurons called IC-encoders in the visual cortex t...
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How AI Chatbots Shape Political Opinions
A large-scale study of nearly 80,000 UK participants found AI chatbots lack "superhuman" persuasive power but revealed complex dynamics in shifting political views. Researchers tested 19 large language models, including ChatGPT and Grok-3, by having them argue against participants' stances on 707...
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Sam Altman Defends GPT-5 Against Critics
GPT-5's launch faced criticism for technical issues and unmet expectations, with users and critics labeling it an incremental improvement rather than the promised revolutionary leap. Despite initial backlash, CEO Sam Altman defends GPT-5's capabilities and long-term potential, asserting it accele...
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Fiji's Ants Signal a Global Insect Crisis
A new international study on Fijian ant populations investigates potential global insect decline, using a long-term approach to identify causes beyond the short-term drops observed in past research. Researchers chose ants for their ideal diversity and Fiji's islands for their isolation and variet...
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Spanish Mathematician & DeepMind Tackle $1M Navier-Stokes Puzzle
A Spanish mathematician, Javier Gómez Serrano, is collaborating with Google DeepMind to solve the Navier-Stokes equations using AI, a problem with a $1 million prize that could revolutionize fields like meteorology and aerodynamics. The Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid behavior, rema...
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Who's Waging War on Science?
The 21st century is increasingly defined by severe environmental crises and the rapid spread of misinformation, creating a challenging context for science. Scientists Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez have co-authored a book that identifies and addresses five major forces threatening science and...
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Male Mosquitoes Also Drink Human Blood
New research challenges the long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite, revealing that **male mosquitoes are also capable of drinking human blood**, particularly when triggered by dehydration. Evidence from both lab experiments and wild-caught specimens confirms this behavior and shows mal...
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