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Two children died from gene therapies in China: where the field goes next 0
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- September 8, 2026
Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, China, hosted one of the gene-therapy trials that led to the death of a child last year.Credit: Costfoto/Sipa USA/Alamy The deaths of two children in separate gene-editing trials in China raise serious questions about oversight and could have a profound effect on the country’s biomedical industry, say researchers, ethicists and legal
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Who is responsible when AI helps to write science?0
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- September 1, 2026
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools are increasingly being used in science to search and summarize literature, produce ideas, draft responses to reviewers and improve the style of written text. This raises a question: what counts as human authorship when some of a researcher’s work is mediated by AI? And how much of this intellectual ‘work’
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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies 0
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- August 30, 2026
Companies use western blots in their catalogues to provide confirmation that their antibodies work as they are supposed to. Credit: Manjurul/Getty Thousands of antibodies sold by multiple research vendors have images associated with their catalogue entries that seem to have been digitally altered, according to a scientific-integrity specialist. The finding comes after more than 100
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How tech-enhanced sleep could improve rest but erode privacy 0
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- August 26, 2026
Being tired behind the wheel can be as dangerous as driving while drunk1. Yet, whereas showing up to work intoxicated can lead to dismissal, being visibly sleepy doesn’t tend to have comparable consequences — at least for now. Too hot to sleep? How heatwaves at night affect our health As employers learn more about the
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It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith 0
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- August 17, 2026
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds. Why
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I caught my students using AI to cheat in an exam — here’s what universities must do to stamp this out 0
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- August 12, 2026
The rapid spread of generative AI tools has exposed deep vulnerabilities in conventional methods of academic assessment. This challenge came into sharp focus for me when I found evidence of widespread unauthorized use of artificial intelligence in an examination for my course on welfare economics and social-choice theory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
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