A scanning microscope at Center for Quantum Nanoscience in Ewha Womans University, Seoul.Credit: Caroline Hommel, QNS With more researchers per capita and a higher spend on research and development than any leading country in the Nature Index, it’s clear that South Korea invests heavily in science. But its ‘bang for buck’ — judged by pitting…

Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,” he says. To prove his point, Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, highlights a well-known 2010 paper1 by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “This paper became…

Last month, UK researchers welcomed the appointment of one of their own as science minister, the ultimate position of power in British research. Patrick Vallance is a former government science adviser who became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the Labour Party’s landslide election win on 4 July, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers currently believe that the main approach to building more general model problems is the big AI model, where existing neural networks are becoming deeper, larger and wider. We term this the big model with external complexity approach. In this work we argue that there is another approach called small model…

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers currently believe that the main approach to building more general model problems is the big AI model, where existing neural networks are becoming deeper, larger and wider. We term this the big model with external complexity approach. In this work we argue that there is another approach called small model…

An event highlighting the convergence of art, science and nature returns Saturday to Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Clermont. CONNECT at Bernheim, an annual event, is scheduled from 5:33 p.m. to 11:33 p.m. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your…

August is moving along, and as the OSU school year approaches, the science and nature calendar around Corvallis is starting to ramp back up. Summer’s not quite done with us yet, but the mild weather around town this week might have a few of us thinking of Fall a bit early. This week’s events include…

The rise in team size in academic science has generated an unintended side effect: junior scientists are less likely to secure research funding or obtain tenure and are more likely to leave academia. Download PDF Career prospects for young people pursuing a career in academic science are increasingly grim1,2,3,4,5. Tenure-track positions have stagnated relative to…

Milton Pividori has explored how best to use AI chatbots to improve science.Credit: Kerkhoff Photography & Design ChatGPT stunned the world on its launch in November 2022. Powered by a large language model (LLM) and trained on much of the text published on the Internet, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, created by OpenAI in San…

Abstract The planet faces a triple crisis from climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Like any country, the UK needs to attract the best available talent to become thought leaders to overcome these global challenges. Several Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths subjects in the UK face challenges with attracting ethnic minority students. As part of…