Former ARPA-H director Renee Wegrzyn wants to solve science’s 'magic hands' problem

With her new startup, Transfyr, Wegrzyn is using AI to help medical breakthroughs make it out of the lab. She explains why ...
The Atlantic

A Simple Lab Ingredient Derailed Science Experiments

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...
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Opinion: AI Presents Science With a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem

Replacing every part of the research process with AI will leave science recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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15 Rice undergraduate teams present data science solutions for real-world problems at D2K Fall Showcase

The Data-to-Knowledge (D2K) lab at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing is a hub for data science solutions that conducts a semester-long program for undergraduates ...
The Atlantic

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...
The Conversation

A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem

Scientific discovery is one of the most sophisticated human activities. First, scientists must understand the existing knowledge and identify a significant gap. Next, they must formulate a research ...
Business Insider

The science refresher you need before diving into Netflix's hit sci-fi series '3 Body Problem'

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The upcoming Netflix show "3 Body Problem" is a sci-fi story about a group of physicists grappling with the discovery of ...