Science
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn't cheating—it's the erosion of learning itself
Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can...
Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon Musk's plans
It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founde...
Five ways that AI could be reshaping your relationship with money
The financial industry is entering a new era, with AI and new regulations on accessing data transforming how finance works. These changes are giving people more...
Is teasing playful or harmful? It depends on a number of factors
Picture this: A group of girls are sitting at a table in the lunchroom when a boy walks by. One girl turns to another girl and laughingly says, "Oh, isn't that...
Natural selection can work at many levels, from molecules to ecosystems
When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant p...
Engineered nanoparticles could deliver better targeted cancer treatment to lymph nodes
Scientists at McGill University and the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute have developed a new way to deliver cancer immunotherapy that caused fewer...
A trillionth of a second: How lasers may sharpen next-gen cryo-ET microscopy
The laser you see in the photo above may one day enhance images taken by the most powerful microscopes in biology. This advancement, detailed in a paper publish...
Metamaterial image sensor keeps colors clear even under oblique light
Smartphone cameras are becoming smaller, yet photos are becoming sharper. Korean researchers have elevated the limits of next-generation smartphone cameras by d...
Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs
Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, id...
From pets to precision medicine: Study finds striking parallels in feline and human cancers
A study from an international team of experts in veterinary medicine, human medicine and genomics provides the first large-scale genetic map of feline cancer, r...
Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, as...
Species on east–west coastlines are more likely to go extinct than those on north–south shores—new study
As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, fo...