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- 1.California to spend billions on ‘visionary’ plan to boost fish habitatErik Stokstad · But skeptics question whether effort to save San Francisco Bay delta region will work without allocating more water for nature
- 2.OpenAI breakthrough triggers ‘existential crisis’ in mathCelina Zhao · Claimed Navier-Stokes solution has polarized mathematicians over AI’s role—and what it means for the next generation
- 3.Why AI agents invent their own language if you let them chatTom Howarth · “Weird terms” are a natural—but disturbing—byproduct of agent swarms, researchers find
- 4.Exclusive: New NIH research center on vaccine harms takes shapeSara Reardon · Clinical researchers will probe complications that can arise after immunization, but some worry about political influence
- 5.Three wild dogs have traveled farther than any African mammalPhie Jacobs · Record-breaking “odyssey” suggests populations of these highly endangered carnivores are more connected than thought
- 6.NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchersJeffrey Mervis · New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
- 7.Single brain implant lets paralyzed people both talk and gesture via an avatarJennie Erin Smith · By decoding two kinds of signals from one brain area, multitasking device offers step toward more natural communication
- 8.‘Chilling’ warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides expertsJocelyn Kaiser · Anthropic describes five cases where scientists in unnamed countries tried to use its Claude software for potentially nefarious work on viruses or toxins
- 9.Social science studies may promise anonymity, but participant identities often lurk in public dataJeffrey Brainard · One-fifth of data sets intended to support replication breached privacy standards, study finds
- 10.Department of Energy bets on ‘open’ AI models for scienceCelina Zhao · Genesis Mission partnership between national labs and AI startup builds new model to automate large-scale science