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Topic: open science

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy carrying NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope climbs through golden clouds after launch

ANALYSIS Space Science

Roman Survived Launch. Now Its Vast Scientific Machine Has to Prove Itself

NASA's newest flagship observatory has completed its first critical deployments and begun commissioning. Its real promise lies in wide-field infrared measurements, open data, and a survey scale that will demand new forms of scientific computing.

Chart showing where constitutional midtraining alignment gains remained after later training

NEWS AI Science

Oxford Researchers Put AI Principles Earlier in Training, and Some of Them Stuck

A 120-billion-parameter experiment found that adding constitutional content before conventional safety tuning produced alignment gains that survived later training. The strongest results are promising, but narrower than a permanent solution to AI alignment.