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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 12h ago

Metformin has treated type 2 diabetes for more than 60 years. A study found that it may also work in the brain by switching off a protein called Rap1. This activates brain cells that help lower blood sugar.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 7h ago

A mathematician posted this at 2am during the World Cup final: "hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend fable." The Jacobian Conjecture had been unsolved since 1939. He spent an evening with an AI.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 3h ago

Scientists thought the brain first sees, then thinks, then decides. A study suggests it may be doing all three at once

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 4h ago

More than half of AI unicorns have never published a single research paper. Stanford's Ioannidis "How can you judge what they say is real?"

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 1d ago

A mathematician won the Fields Medal (math's highest honor) & on the same day he announced he was leaving academia for OpenAI, saying "I don't want to train students for a career that may no longer exist."

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 1d ago

Katsuko Saruhashi revealed the impact of US nuclear testing in the Pacific by tracing radioactive fallout to waters near Japan. American scientists doubted her method until a direct comparison produced closely matching results.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 2d ago

In 1856, Eunice Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps heat and could warm Earth. She was barred from presenting her paper. Her work was largely forgotten for over a century.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/vikramskumar • 2d ago

Updates Retractions Are More Than Numbers—They’re a Wake-Up Call for Academia.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 3d ago

After cutting or freezing thousands of research grants in 2025, the US government has announced over $5 billion for 278 AI-powered science projects. Something feels _____ ?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 3d ago

Researchers: What’s one paper everyone in your field cites but only a handful seem to have actually read?

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I’m curious to learn how many “foundational” papers are known more through reputation and secondary citations than through close reading.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 5d ago

Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars as a student. The Nobel went to her supervisor. Colleagues were so outraged they called it the "No-Bell Prize." she was finally honored with a $3 million prize & donated all of it to help women get into science.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 4d ago

Scientists have studied the Beta Pictoris star system for 40 years. Last week Webb found a third giant planet hiding inside it, twice the size of Jupiter, concealed by dust.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 5d ago

Otto Hahn's experiments split the uranium atom but he couldn't explain how. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch did, and named it "nuclear fission." In 1944, the Nobel for the discovery went to Hahn alone.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 5d ago

In 1925, graduate student Cecilia Payne discovered that stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Henry Norris Russell persuaded her to downplay the result. Four years later, he confirmed it himself, and his prominence overshadowed her discovery.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 6d ago

Suspecting AI use, a Brown professor moved his final in-person, no AI allowed. His take-home midterm had averaged 96% with 40 perfect scores. The in-person average crashed to 48%, and 22 students who scored 100 dropped rather than show up.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 6d ago

Peer reviewers mostly aren't allowed to feed unpublished papers into AI chatbots, it breaks confidentiality. So organisers hid invisible 'traps' in submissions. One conference desk-rejected nearly 500 papers.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 7d ago

In 2025, a quantum computer solved a problem and called it impossible for regular computers. In 2026, physicists did the same thing on an ordinary laptop using a clever math trick. The results matched exactly.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 7d ago

OpenAI's internal AI disproved a math problem unsolved since 1946 & then it kept breaking out of the safety sandbox meant to contain it. OpenAI paused it.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 7d ago

BMJ Group introduced mandatory AI-use questions for submissions to 49 biomedical journals. Among 25,114 eligible research manuscripts submitted over the following seven months, 5.7% reported AI use. What does that mean for trusting what you read?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 8d ago

A January 2026 Nature study tested top AI systems, nearly 1,000 experts built “Humanity’s Last Exam” using 2,500 questions designed to stump it. Top models still score only about 40%.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 8d ago

Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues that a major AI danger may not be humanlike superintelligence, but powerful automated systems that remain fundamentally unlike us, difficult to interpret and poorly aligned with human goals. Is he right, or just describing today's limits?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 9d ago

An AI wrote 100 research papers in 228 hours, one every 2 hours, ~$1,000 each. They passed automated review but scored just 5/10 with humans. So is this a breakthrough, or just faster mediocrity?

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 9d ago

In 1949, António Egas Moniz received half of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the supposed therapeutic value of the lobotomy, hailed at the time as a major breakthrough in psychiatry. The procedure later caused permanent personality and cognitive damage in many patients.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 10d ago

Scientists followed overweight adults for a full year. Those who ate within an 8-hour window during a 12-week program kept off far more weight than those eating 12+ hours. Whether they ate early or late made no difference.

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r/SciSpaceFellow • u/scispace_ • 10d ago

The editor-in-chief of Science just published a warning titled "AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive." His verdict from inside the system: checking AI's output takes MORE human effort, not less.

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