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OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms

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By Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
More than 700 preprints in various fields of mathematics were posted simultaneously by OpenAI.Credit: Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision via Getty The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October. The San Francisco, California-based maker of ChatGPT posted the preprints on the software repository Github.
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Astronomy’s ‘adrenaline junkies’: Nobel prize captures the thrill of neutrino physics

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By Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
Francis Halzen, who today won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, was the driving force behind IceCube, the pioneering kilometre-sized neutrino observatory at the South Pole. But Halzen — whom I have had the fortune to interview multiple times over the years while covering this field — never saw neutrino detectors such as IceCube as working in isolation.
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Nobel physics prize awarded for detection of ghostly neutrinos

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By Elizabeth Gibney Verified, Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Belgian physicist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in founding the IceCube Observatory and for the discovery of high-energy elusive particles, known as neutrinos, that come from deep in space. Halzen, who is based at the University of Wisconsin Madison, will take home all of the 12-million Swedish kronor (US$1.2 million) prize, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 6 October.
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