AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people’s minds. What’s their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
Scientific spat erupts over claim that bones have key immune vessels
Discovery of lymphatic tubes suggested new possibilities for bone healing, but challenge has prompted dueling papers and publication delay in prominent journal
Who checks what AI can do? | Science
The most important findings about frontier artificial intelligence (AI) are also the hardest to verify. Much of the information needed to understand its capabilities and risks—including results from evaluations of prerelease models and containment ...
Beyond carbon in renewable energy policy | Science
China’s policy-driven solar expansion shows why climate policy appraisal should look at biodiversity impacts
Touch and pain shape what brain imaging sees | Science
Sensory inputs influence different blood vessel networks, affecting the precision of brain scans
The lab that learns | Science
Integrating high-throughput experiments, robotics, and artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discoveries
Bonding carbons iteratively | Science
A modular synthesis method could broaden the accessibility of chemistry
Technology is not a replacement for democracy | Science
A government run by machines is not inevitable—we have been here and rejected it before
Learning to love the machine | Science
Big Tech’s crusade to get kids coding is more self-interested than it first appears, argues a journalist