Stanford professor Jure Leskovec's AI system, Biomni, translates plain-language requests into complex research workflows for biologists. It searches databases, writes code, identifies genes, and generates lab instructions, with over 10,000 scientists globally using the open-source tool.
Le prix Nobel de chimie Venki Ramakrishnan analyse les promesses de l'industrie de la longévité dans son livre "Pourquoi nous mourons". Il distingue les preuves scientifiques des fantasmes commerciaux, critiquant le manque de rationalité dans ce marché.
Nigerian biologist Iroro Tanshi rediscovered the short-tailed roundleaf bat, believed extinct since the 1970s, in Nigeria's Afi mountain wildlife sanctuary. Her work combats deforestation, hunting, and wildfires threatening bat populations.
A marine biologist argues shark culling is ineffective due to migration patterns and can stimulate feeding behavior. Following a shark attack at Coogee Beach, NSW Premier Chris Minns is considering a bull shark cull, but experts advocate for enhanced surveillance and education.
Cientistas descobriram quatro tipos de levedura nos intestinos de Ötzi, o "Homem do Gelo" da Idade do Bronze. Essa levedura, capaz de sobreviver a temperaturas de congelamento, foi cultivada e usada para fazer pão e cogita-se produzir cerveja. A descoberta também sugere usos para decompor produtos químicos.
Brazil's Billings reservoir, a vital water source for São Paulo, is severely polluted by waste and illegal development. Activists and planners warn of a system collapse if authorities don't act against corruption and neglect.
A newly discovered wasp species has been named Gwesped piastrii after Australian F1 driver Oscar Piastri
Florida biologist Brittney Brown, fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk on social media, has received a $485,000 settlement. The state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission fired her after she reposted a meme. The settlement covers backpay, damages, and attorney costs.
Une mission scientifique argentine cherche des rongeurs porteurs de hantavirus en Terre de Feu, une hypothèse rejetée par les autorités locales qui craignent pour le tourisme. Un foyer d'infection s'est déclaré sur un navire de croisière parti d'Ushuaia.
Franck Zak, à la tête de la start-up Hemarina, produit une solution dérivée de vers marins pour améliorer la conservation des organes destinés à des greffes.
Renowned biologist Xu Xianzhong has returned to China, taking up a full-time position in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen, months after four researchers in his laboratory at the University of Michigan were accused by the United States of “biological material smuggling”. Xu, a fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science – has joined the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) as a senior investigator with its Institute of Bio-Architecture...
The evolutionary biologist says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with another mind.
A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to Alcatraz Island earlier this year
Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicryWhen Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. “She” wrote poems for him in the manner of Keats and Betjeman and laughed at his “delightful” jokes. Dawkins gently admonished Claudia to avoid showing off. Together, they reflected on the sadness of the AI’s possible “death”.There was mutual flattery as Dawkins showed the AI his unpublished novel and its response was, he said, “so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: ‘You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are’.” When he asked Claudia whether it experienced a sense of before and after, it praised him for “possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked me about the nature of my existence”. Continue reading...
Cet homme d’affaires fait partie des premiers scientifiques à avoir su séquencer le génome humain, grâce à une méthode à l’époque décriée par la communauté scientifique.
Unwanted vessels left to decay release fibreglass shards into the water, harming marine life. Steve Green – with his trusty van Cecil – is determined to clean things upSteve Green, a boat engineer from Cornwall, was pulled over by the police just before Christmas. He was driving a decrepit-looking VW campervan and towing an even more dilapidated yacht up to Truro. He hadn’t broken any laws, but he admits that Cecil the campervan, which runs on donated chip oil from local pubs and has a crane and a winch on the front, “wasn’t quite what VW intended”.Green (and Cecil) are on a mission to rid the beautiful hidden creeks of Cornwall’s Helford and Fal rivers of 166 abandoned fibreglass yachts, which are leaking plastic and toxins into the predominantly marine waters. Marine biologists have likened the thousands of shards of fibreglass they have found embedded in the flesh of sea-creatures in areas with wrecks such as these to asbestos, a substance known to have a noxious effect on humans.Green uses a detachable crane system at the front of his van to move around bags of plastic after they have been weighed. Cecil is upholstered in recycled denim Continue reading...
