September 17, 2025 4 min read Secrets of DeepSeek AI Model Revealed in Landmark Paper The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for $300,000 By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine DeepSeek says its R1 model did not learn by copying examples generated by… Continue reading Secrets of DeepSeek AI Model Revealed in Landmark Paper
Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal. It is one of many “paper mills” that have emerged across Asia and Eastern… Continue reading Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
This Global Treasure Hunt Has Been Going for 25 Years
Bryan Roth had been hiking and scrambling for a while, with drop-offs evident around him, when his guides held out coveralls and pointed between two rocks. “We have to go in the hole,” one said. Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container… Continue reading This Global Treasure Hunt Has Been Going for 25 Years
Preparing for the Death of Putin
Benjamin Franklin wrote that nothing is certain but death and taxes. In Russia, one might quip that only death and the overwhelming power of the tsar are constant. But what happens when the tsar dies? Vladimir Putin is the longest-serving Russian ruler since Joseph Stalin. He turns 73 on Oct. 7, old for a Russian,… Continue reading Preparing for the Death of Putin
How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment
Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, are they surprised? Many 6-month-olds are, and by a year, almost all children have an… Continue reading How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment
From Lawfare to Barfare: Another Way To Target Trump Allies
Jeffrey Clark’s 2023 arraignment photo on charges related to the 2020 election. When Jeffrey Clark was tapped to lead the second Trump administration’s chief regulatory review office, it marked an astonishing redemption. For years, congressional investigators and prosecutors had pursued the former Department of Justice official primarily over an unsent letter he drafted, in support… Continue reading From Lawfare to Barfare: Another Way To Target Trump Allies
How a Contentious CDC Vaccine Meeting Will Affect Public Health
The already tumultuous landscape of U.S. vaccine policy faces more turmoil in what’s anticipated to be a politically charged two-day meeting of a recently overhauled advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is an independent panel of experts that has traditionally met three times a… Continue reading How a Contentious CDC Vaccine Meeting Will Affect Public Health
The Femicide Crisis: How the Netherlands Can Learn from the UK
The murder of Lisa from Abcoude in August sent shockwaves through the Netherlands. Women (and men) across the country took to the streets to demand their safety in a national campaign to “reclaim the night.” Unfortunately, it has become clear in recent months that girls and women are not only at risk when cycling home… Continue reading The Femicide Crisis: How the Netherlands Can Learn from the UK
Introduction to Parapsychology (October 2025)
Introduction to Parapsychology (October 2025) < !- end of Google Analytics Code Snippet by GA4WP–> // tabnab protection window.addEventListener(‘load’, function () { // make all links have rel=”noopener noreferrer” document.querySelectorAll(‘a[target=”_blank”]’).forEach(link => { link.setAttribute(‘rel’, ‘noopener noreferrer’); }); }); ]]> Podcast: Download Can science prove psychic abilities and survival after death? Jimmy Akin announces his Introduction to… Continue reading Introduction to Parapsychology (October 2025)
These Clever Dogs Know the Difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Throw’ Toys
September 18, 2025 2 min read Some Dogs Can Learn Categories like Human Toddlers Do These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning By Anirban Mukhopadhyay edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Researchers found that some dogs can learn terms for functional categories, such as… Continue reading These Clever Dogs Know the Difference between ‘Pull’ and ‘Throw’ Toys