If there are two things Alaskans know about their food, it’s that it’s expensive, and a lot of it comes from somewhere else. The Alaska Farmers Market Association has administered a program for the ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

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I was about to be the first in my family to graduate from a prestigious Research 1 university when the second Trump administration began its attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs — ...

On Tuesday, OpenAI released a free AI-powered workspace for scientists. It’s called Prism, and it has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already ...

President Donald Trump and his administration have adopted a rather confusing posture on their highly controversial immigration raids. On the one hand, they seem to recognize that ICE’s actions are a ...

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In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

Section 1. Purpose. United States leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will promote United States national and economic security and dominance across many domains. Pursuant to Executive Order ...