Imagine a healthy forest, home to a variety of species: Birds are flitting between tree branches, salamanders are sliding through leaf litter, and wolves are tracking the scent of deer through the understory. Each of these animals has a role in the forest[1], and most ecologists would argue that losing any one of these species would be bad...
People and institutions are grappling with the consequences of AI-written text[1]. Teachers want to know whether students’ work reflects their own understanding; consumers want to know whether an advertisement was written by a human or a machine.
Writing rules to govern the use of AI-generated content[2] is relatively easy. Enforcing them...
A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon review session at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Eleven of those students were struck by gunfire[1] when a shooter entered the lecture hall. Two didn’t survive.
Shortly after, a petition[2] circulated calling for...
From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States.
January saw the abrupt suspension of key operations across the National Institutes of Health[1], not only disrupting clinical trials and other in-progress studies but stalling grant reviews and other activities necessary to conduct research. Around the...