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Do you have what it takes to win Science’s #DanceYour PhD competition? We want you to top last year’s winning entry from a scientist who translated physics’ piezoelectric effect into dance.

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A Massachusetts jury has awarded biologist David Sabatini $6 million—plus interest—in damages in his defamation case against Kristin Knouse, a former colleague at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

The physician-scientist’s claims led one research institution to fire Sabatini and precipitated his resignations from Whitehead and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a tenured faculty member.

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A dump of 722 AI-generated papers has mathematicians wondering: Has their field been decimated or invigorated?

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Could your chatbot tip off a scientific rival? It’s possible, researchers say. But here are some tips for keeping sensitive research private. | Science | AAAS https://t.co/JKgRVbBLWr

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A lavish 1919 dinner party that ended up killing five people. An attempt to save the canning industry in the 1920s. A World War II biological weapons program and a CIA plot against Fidel Castro. A cosmetic product, best known as Botox, that erases facial wrinkles and exploded into a multibillion-dollar business.

A new analysis of more than 1000 bacterial genomes connects these disparate episodes in U.S. history in a piece of microbiological detective work. Detailed in a new paper, the study shows how scientists unwittingly triggered the evolution of a dangerous bacterium into one with major medical and commercial advantages.

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Watch: What’s the deal with OpenAI’s massive dump of math papers? | Science | AAAS https://t.co/qRai17DfJ1

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Uranium cubes recovered from Nazi Germany’s nuclear program have helped reveal how far its scientists were from building a working reactor. https://t.co/yik2aIXuox

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Amazing story from @celinatzhao. Pretty sure it’s the first time we’ve interviewed an AI agent. Science | AAAS https://t.co/unuTJ8nCjs

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Researchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screening | Science | AAAS https://t.co/3LRq3vJ4av

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“We’re actually deeply concerned here because we don’t really know why these things are communicating this way." https://t.co/YxlfoC9Vdf

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Department of Energy bets on ‘open’ AI models for science | Science | AAAS https://t.co/fbYToEn8s2

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“Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts | Science | AAAS https://t.co/JrFturMFm3

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How an AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy | Science | AAAS https://t.co/Isp3cWjqO7

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Outrage greets NIH pact that could funnel biodefense research funds to Pentagon | Science | AAAS https://t.co/XCTHkfWgjJ

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All or almost all galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their heart, astronomers suspect. But when galaxies merge, do their black holes do the same?

Simulations suggest the answer is not always: Sometimes, one of the two escapes the gravitational clutches of the merged galaxy, wandering the cosmos as an exile.

Now, a research team has found long-sought evidence of a supermassive black hole with very few stars around it that appears to have slipped the leash after a galactic mashup.

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Within 2 weeks in September 2017, a pair of hurricanes blasted the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. The storms spelled disaster for the island’s human and nonhuman residents alike, including small lizards known as silver key anoles.

But some of the islands’ anoles endured the storms better than others—and now scientists have uncovered a possible reason why in their genes.

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About 14,700 years ago, a large cat hobbled through what is now the heart of Los Angeles, toward the panicked cries of a camel trapped in tar. But as the fearsome feline approached the hapless herbivore, it, too, became ensnared in the pit of burbling oil—condemning itself to a similar fate.

Why were these saber-toothed felines drawn to the pits? One reason, researchers now suggest, is that picking off trapped prey may have been the cats’ only reliable way to hunt: Many had hampered mobility, a side effect of heritable deformities and rare nerve tumors brought on by generations of inbreeding.

This research provides one of the first direct indicators of how North America’s megafauna suffered the consequences of population decline through the end of the last ice age.

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Peptide enthusiasts—including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—might soon be able to buy the controversial products more easily from regulated sources. https://t.co/7zwETV4yR0

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独家披露：一名女孩在中国基因编辑试验中死���，此事从未对外公开 | Science | AAAS https://t.co/6Uk78lC5kj