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Brian Nosek, the executive director for the Open Science Framework, announced last month that the platform will soon stop hosting code, data and supplementary materials for researchers. Credit: Kirsten Luce/New York Times/Redux/eyevine The co-founder of a prominent open-science platform has announced that funding uncertainties have forced the site to make changes to some of its
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A swirling vortex — involved in the solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem.Credit: OpenAI OpenAI says that it has shown that the Navier–Stokes equations — which describe the motion of fluids — can break
Artificial-intelligence researchers say that the idea of leaving academia is tempting, but some nevertheless resist the move.Credit: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty If you’re looking to make money with your skills in artificial intelligence, academia isn’t the most lucrative destination. The National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted an analysis1 of AI
NASA has carried out some notable rescue missions over the past few years, including bringing home the astronauts stranded on the International Space Station last year. More recently, the agency sent up a probe in hopes of saving the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a satellite first launched in 2004 that began falling out of our