This illustrates a widespread problem affecting large language models (LLMs): even when an English-language version passes a safety test, it can still hallucinate dangerous misinformation in other ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

After analyzing 385 studies related to coastal areas and sea level rise, scientists found a significant discrepancy between ...

Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known ...

Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Duke’s chief science and technology strategist shares how Duke Science and Technology plans to connect world‑class research ...

This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsand is reproduced here as part of the Climate ...

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is no longer the bottleneck—if generating, testing, and iterating on ...

Failure is a necessity in scientific research. In my field of particle physics, breakthroughs are often measured in decades.

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.