AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women—Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...
The Guardian

Trump EPA relied on industry science to weaken formaldehyde cancer rules, documents show

Papers reveal how chemical lobby influenced policy, reversing Biden-era limits on a common carcinogen Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A new trove of ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Built Working Hair Follicles in a Lab. They Could Cure Baldness Forever.

Treating hair loss is a multi-billion dollar business, so scientists (and many others) are interested in understanding how to generate functioning hair follicles in the lab. A new study found that ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Report on UIC lab falls short in addressing allegedly flawed results in DUI cases: commission

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois Forensic Science Commission is responding to a drug testing scandal, first uncovered by the ABC7 I-Team, at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Many Illinois marijuana ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company. By Eric Niiler The Trump administration is reviewing proposals to ...
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Racing by the rules of physics: The science behind NASCAR at COTA

Fire up the horsepower. We're not just talking left turns and loud engines; we're breaking down the real science behind NASCAR and how drivers stay in control when everything around them wants to ...
East Bay Times

FBI hazmat team descends on homemade science lab at luxury California house

A homemade science lab in a rented luxury home near the Great Park in Irvine has sparked a heavy, multiday response from an FBI hazardous materials team and other federal and local agencies. The ...
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How one experiment almost broke the rules of science

The science pros at TKOR push an experiment so far it nearly breaks accepted scientific expectations, forcing them to question what they thought they knew. The three costly purchases that retirees say ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
TechSpot

Computer science enrollment falls across the University of California for the first time in 20 years

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...