Anjana Ahuja

FT SCIENCE COMMENTATOR

The Dong Fang Hong 3, a deep-sea research vessel, docked in Qingdao in China's Shandong province. It has been mapping the ocean floor in the last two years.
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As Trump scares off US scientists, China is racing ahead

Robert F Kennedy Jr campaigns against childhood vaccine mandates at a rally in Albany, New York, May 14, 2019.
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The new Republican war on science

As machines everywhere, particularly LLMs, are crafted to be more humanlike, we risk being duped at scale by companies restrained by few checks and balances.

Should we be fretting over AI’s feelings?

Researchers have used Denmark’s registry data, which contains a wealth of day-to-day information on education, salary, job, working hours, housing and doctor visits to develop the  life2vec algorithm.

Could an AI ‘death calculator’ actually be a good thing?

Science should apply some of its famed rigour to professionalising the business of fraud detection.
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There is a scientific fraud epidemic – and we are ignoring the cure

A steel sculpture with the Chinese names of the 17 chemical elements known as "rare earths",  in the Baotou Rare Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Even the periodic table must bow to the reality of war