Activists in San Marcos, Texas, protested against proposed data centres that would power artificial-intelligence systems.Credit: Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty As public opposition grows against the soaring energy and water demands of data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom, some technology companies are talking about putting these facilities in space. For instance, businessman Elon Musk’s
Credit: bpawesome/Getty Replication of experimental results is important for building credible science, but replication studies are often difficult to find. A team of researchers wants to change that. They have begun publishing replication studies on the peer review platform PubPeer, along with links to the original studies. There have been numerous attempts to replicate scientific
Credit: Denis Borisov/Getty Researchers are increasingly using autonomous AI agents for data interpretation. The accuracy of this analysis depends on the data sets available to these programs, and a new study documents how easy it is for scammers to “poison” these resources by uploading manipulated data sets that closely resemble the originals but lead to
You have full access to this article through your institution. People are more likely to trust scientists when scientists trust the public and are open about uncertainties.Credit: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Niels Mede is curious to know how the public views science. Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science communication researcher that they thought trust
If you create a data set and no one can find it, is it useful? Not as much as it could be. With trust in science under siege from partisan actors and impartial pathogens, the accessibility and transparency of (and trust in) scientific information must be improved. Have people stopped trusting science? The data tells