Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now ...

A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has ...

A new drug strategy that regulates the tumor immune microenvironment may transform a tumor that resists immunotherapy into a ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

Despite a slight uptick in trust, scientists continue to face challenges in regaining public trust after the pandemic.

The University of Wyoming’s contribution to the state’s economy has increased significantly over the past decade, supporting ...

“With recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), we’ve developed a new, more intuitive interface for Dimensions: Natural Language to Query (NLQ), which translates user intent directly into a ...

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Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers. Earth is now gaining less heat than it has for several years ...

Meta’s Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientist, Dr Yann LeCun ... that stage by using the current paradigm and just making it bigger; we need essentially new architectures like objective-driven ...

New Scientist's popular Last Word series gives readers the opportunity to answer each other's questions about everyday science phenomena, from the shape of scones to the evolutionary history of ...