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  1. Artificial Intelligence

    AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to fool

    The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but has problems of its own.

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  2. Climate

    A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

    The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a catastrophic climate regime.

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  3. Agriculture

    Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree

    A whole-genome analysis of Beefalo, a hybrid bison-cattle breed, suggests very few individuals have any bison DNA at all, a new study reports.