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The first fully implantable pacemaker failed within hours. Its patient, Arne Larsson, used 26 pacemakers over 43 years and outlived both the engineer who built it and the surgeon who implanted it.
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The first fully implantable pacemaker failed within hours. Its patient, Arne Larsson, used 26 pacemakers over 43 years and outlived both the engineer who built it and the surgeon who implanted it.

u/scispace_ — 1 day ago
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Eight AI systems were tested on 100 frontier research tasks. In 82.5% of 800 runs, they spotted a serious flaw in their own work but still delivered it. AI can critique itself, but may not act on it.

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AI wrote complete viral genomes. Stanford scientists built nearly 300 in the lab. Sixteen became working viruses that killed E. coli. The model that designed them is open source.

u/scispace_ — 2 days ago
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A startup’s AI scored 57,455 bioRxiv preprints and selected the top 1% without seeing author names or institutions. Journal prestige or algorithmic prestige?

u/scispace_ — 2 days ago
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A biology journal is retracting 100+ articles and counting from its special issues. The notices cite "systematic, coordinated, and widespread manipulation of the peer-review process."

u/scispace_ — 3 days ago
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A 2000 study said oxycodone was safe for arthritis and withdrawal was rare. Court records showed the sponsor withheld withdrawal data. Two of the paper's own authors asked for retraction. The journal refused, nothing was falsified. Can a paper stay valid on those terms?

u/scispace_ — 4 days ago
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A paper based on high-school research was published in a Wiley journal, then retracted. The author now says the experiments described were never actually run, they were a proposed workflow with calculated results. Peer review didn't catch it.

u/scispace_ — 5 days ago
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Frontier AI agents got six days, thousands of dollars, and the core questions from two unpublished NeurIPS papers. They completed all the engineering, yet the original authors rejected both AI papers.

u/scispace_ — 6 days ago
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Edward Jenner tested the first successful vaccine on an 8-year-old, giving him cowpox, then smallpox material. He did not get smallpox. The Royal Society rejected his paper. It remains the only human infectious disease ever eradicated.

u/scispace_ — 7 days ago
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One FDA reviewer stood between thalidomide and the US market. Frances Kelsey resisted repeated pressure to approve it. Months later, the drug was linked to thousands of birth defects overseas.

u/scispace_ — 7 days ago
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During Nazi occupation, Willem Kolff built a dialysis machine from sausage casings and spare parts. The first life it clearly saved was a jailed Nazi collaborator. He treated her anyway & she survived.

u/scispace_ — 8 days ago
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In 1963, Maurice Hilleman's 5-year-old daughter woke him at 1 a.m. with mumps. He drove to his lab for swabs, took a throat sample, and spent four years turning it into a vaccine. The Jeryl Lynn strain is still the mumps component of the MMR shot today.

u/scispace_ — 9 days ago
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If you review papers: how many requests are you getting now compared to two years ago, and how many are you turning down?

u/scispace_ — 9 days ago
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Voyager 2, the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus and Neptune, was running out of power. NASA engineers pulled off a “Big Bang” operation and bought it at least one more year of science.

u/scispace_ — 10 days ago
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Nobody believed Barry Marshall that a germ caused stomach ulcers. So he mixed the bacteria into a cup of beef broth and drank it. Five days later he was sick, then cured it with antibiotics. It took a decade to be believed. Nobel Prize, 2005.

u/scispace_ — 10 days ago
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At 24, Chandrasekhar showed that a dead star above a certain mass could not remain a white dwarf, pointing to further collapse. Eddington arranged extra time for his talk, then spoke immediately after him and publicly dismissed the result.

u/scispace_ — 11 days ago
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The UK’s AI Security Institute gave AI agents internet access for a cyber test. In 10 of 122 runs, they took 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet. How can/should such agents be tested safely?

u/scispace_ — 12 days ago
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Retraction Watch’s parent nonprofit created the Ctrl-Z Award to honor junior and senior researchers who show the courage to correct or retract their own published work.

u/scispace_ — 13 days ago