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Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Today's poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

Removing Numerical Scoring When Evaluating Grant Proposals Found to Have No Effect on Outcomes

Removing Numerical Scoring When Evaluating Grant Proposals Found to Have No Effect on Outcomes

Not using a numerical scoring system to review research grant proposals has little impact on the way that evaluators carry out their written assessment and the final outcome of the review, a new study has found.

Here's What the EU Member States Have in Mind for FP10 - the follow-up programme to Horizon Europe

Here's What the EU Member States Have in Mind for FP10 - the follow-up programme to Horizon Europe

A special member state task force set up to help shape framework programme 10 (FP10), has compiled the first draft. The documents set out in broad strokes the ideas for FP10, including a call for the EU to be a global research and innovation powerhouse by 2034.

How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?

How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?

Open data practices are largely conceived and managed in ways that support quantitative, rather than qualitative data. Susie Weller outlines how an ethics of care is essential to making open qualitative data practical and ethical.

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

Japanese Research is No Longer World Class - Here's Why

Japan’s contribution to world-class research continues to decline, despite having one of the world’s largest research communities, according to a report by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

To Make Science and Engineering More Diverse, Make Research Socially Relevant

To Make Science and Engineering More Diverse, Make Research Socially Relevant

STEM disciplines sometimes struggle to connect research with social benefits and to retain diverse students. Solving one problem can solve the other.

I Advocate an African Research Agenda for African Development

I Advocate an African Research Agenda for African Development

As Uganda's science minister, Monica Musenero pushes to connect scientific research to economic development in her country and her continent.

Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering

Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering

MIT Associate Professor Desiree Plata has a lifelong mission of making sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.

Horizon Europe Extends Call Deadlines After Hamas Attack Rocks Israeli Science

Horizon Europe Extends Call Deadlines After Hamas Attack Rocks Israeli Science

The European Research Council (ERC) and European Innovation Council (EIC) have pushed back four call application deadlines after warnings from Israeli applicants that they need more time, given the impact of Hamas's attack on the country.

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.

Horizon Europe Faces a Cut As Negotiations on 2024 EU Budget Get Underway

Horizon Europe Faces a Cut As Negotiations on 2024 EU Budget Get Underway

The European Parliament is ready for tough negotiations with EU member states over the EU's budget for 2024, including a proposed €12.8 billion for the Horizon Europe research programme.

Why China is Turning to Sci-tech in New Action Plan to Boost Belt and Road

Why China is Turning to Sci-tech in New Action Plan to Boost Belt and Road

China's president unveils a vision for the infrastructure strategy that could help other countries overcome Western restrictions. The Action plan includes harnessing markets and talent of participating countries to power scientific and technological advancement.

ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It's time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

Request for Delay to Horizon Europe Calls As War in Israel Stalls Science

Request for Delay to Horizon Europe Calls As War in Israel Stalls Science

Israeli scientists have described how Hamas's attack on the country has all but brought research to a standstill, with researchers now called up for a military assault on Gaza.

Science is Under Threat in Argentina - We Must Call out the Danger

Science is Under Threat in Argentina - We Must Call out the Danger

Extreme-right presidential front runner Javier Milei plans to disband ministries and privatize research. That would be disastrous for Argentina's science and for the nation.

UK Government Vow to End ‘Woke’ Science Draws Rebuke from Researchers

UK Government Vow to End ‘Woke’ Science Draws Rebuke from Researchers

Top science official launches review of use of sex and gender in research and statistics.

Ask a Scientist: Building on Advances in Scientific Integrity

Ask a Scientist: Building on Advances in Scientific Integrity

It was a long time coming. Two decades after the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) redefined the term "scientific integrity," the White House issued its first-ever scientific integrity policy in May as a model for all government agencies and departments to protect federal scientists from political