Humans Pollute the Environment With 57 Million Tons of Plastic Each Year, Study Suggests | Scientists used A.I. to model local waste management in 50,000 municipalities worldwide and say the results suggest a need to improve access to waste collection systems

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AI Reveals Hidden Interior Design Rules of the Cell -- A new tool predicts where proteins fit, opening new frontiers in drug discovery

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Study finds nearly two-thirds of AI-generated citations are fabricated or contain errors. The lack of reliability of large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o highlights a significant risk for scientific research. 📊🤖⚠️

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See Figure 1: When a major Nature journal approves AI slop 🤖📝, it raises real questions about peer review 🤔, Nature’s quality control 🏷️, and whether scientific institutions can police themselves 🚨.

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Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact 🚀 but contract science’s focus 🤖🔬🧠

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Researchers who use AI tools in their science 🧠 publish more papers 📰 and advance more quickly in their careers 🚀, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same data-rich problems 📊, narrowing the scope of science 🧪 as a whole 🌍

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🚀 AI tools are helping scientists publish more papers and get promoted faster, based on an analysis of over 40 million academic papers.

📈 However, this surge in AI-assisted research is leading to a narrowing of scientific inquiry, with studies clustering around the same popular problems and generating less novel engagement.

🔬 This creates a tension between individual career advancement and collective scientific progress, potentially leading to conformity and reduced originality in research.

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Study: Researchers use generative AI to create novel viruses that infect bacteria, raising biosafety concerns

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Scientists increasingly dependent on ‘black-box’ tools they do not understand | Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or verify, according to a new study.

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