Leben (Life aka misc)
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday announced that it was closing 19 journals, some of which were infected Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review
A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop AI and place safeguards around it, writing in a report released Wednesday that the U.S. needs to “harness the opportunities and address Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
2023 Temperatures Were Warmest We’ve Seen For At Least 2,000 Years
Starting in June of last year, global temperatures went from very hot to extreme. Every single month since June, the globe has experienced the hottest temperatures for that month on record — that’s 11 months in a row now, enough to ensure that 2023 was the hottest year on record, Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome
Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues who were simply trying to put together a compendium of human DNA functions. Their Read more…