Out of 722 manuscripts published in a GitHub repository, Sam Altman’s company withdrew three due to a sign error. As long as OpenAI continues to produce theorems faster than the world can read them, the word ‘proven’ should be taken with a pinch of salt, even when it is a computer that certifies it.

Seven million studies published in a single year, findings that appear to contradict one another and crucial insights that remain buried. To access scientific literature, we rely on search engines, platforms and artificial intelligence systems that sort through pages and decide which results to show us. This process of selection is inevitable, but the way in which it is carried out often remains opaque

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner at 11.45. Last year, the prize was awarded for the ‘sponge materials’ developed by Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi. The prize has been awarded since 1901: here is this year’s winner

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Prize to the Belgian physicist “for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and to the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”.

The prize goes to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel for their discoveries concerning light-activated ion channels. The medical applications could prove significant, and some have already begun to emerge

The prize has been awarded to Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel for the discoveries that made optogenetics possible. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday. Among the nominations made public is that of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

The scientific method is not democratic and does not make decisions by majority vote. A piece of data does not become false simply because it is unpopular, nor does evidence become true simply because it garners widespread support. Confusing these two aspects can be risky.

A twenty-year study analyses the reintroduction of wolves into the wildlife of the large nature reserve, refuting the ‘trophic cascade’ theory: ecosystems do not automatically restore their lost state 

A study in Nature reveals important information about the spread of viruses, but cuts to the WHO’s budget are having an impact on precisely those areas that are essential for continuing this work