Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which offers an AI assistant that has inspired enthusiasm among its early users, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that it
Credit: SvetaZi/iStock via Getty Early-career fellowships play a key part in helping researchers to move from supervised work to greater independence. The intense competition, however, can make the application process daunting for early-career researchers (ECRs). Based on our experience of running a successful fellowship support structure in the chemistry department at University College London (UCL),
Camp Cranium counselor Anvitha Tharra (right) helps participant Angelica Zander learn to use a bow and arrow. The weeklong event in Pennsylvania’s Columbia County provides community, support and fun for children with brain injuries. Sarah Hofius Hall/WVIA News hide caption toggle caption Sarah Hofius Hall/WVIA News In an open field, arrows whizzed through the humid
Public money does more than support frontier technologies, it helps to shape the markets that grow around them. Through decisions on contracts, grants, benchmarks, infrastructure and purchasing routes, governments influence which firms learn first, which systems are adopted and whether markets stay open or closed. Governments must recognize their role in shaping future competition in
That program was active in selected counties in 10 hog-plagued states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Starting in 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture funded private landowners’ purchases of trapping equipment, on-farm trapping efforts and restoration of land the hogs had damaged. Originally slated to end in
The US National Science Foundation has been a major funder of basic science in the United States. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo/Alamy The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. The steep drop continues a pattern that began last
