#Scientific methodology

Articles (5)

• 🇺🇸 Why Conventional SETI Needs A Major Refocus — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  After decades of searching for alien signals in narrow radio and microwave bandwidths, a new paper suggests that we take a wholly different approach. The idea is to broaden the search to a much wider...

  Related: #SETI strategy, #Extraterrestrial intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  A new psychedelic retreat calling itself a “SETI for the mind” aims to establish two-way communication with the nonhuman entities people encounter while tripping on DMT.

  Related: #Consciousness research, #Psychedelic therapy
• 🇺🇸 Certified Circuits: Stability Guarantees for Mechanistic Circuits — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how neural networks arrive at their predictions is essential for debugging, auditing, and deployment. Mechanistic interpretability pursue...

  Related: #AI interpretability, #Neural network reliability
• 🇺🇸 Causal and Compositional Abstraction — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.16612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Abstracting from a low level to a more explanatory high level of description, and ideally while preserving causal structure, is fundamental to scient...

  Related: #Causal inference, #Category theory, #Model abstraction, #AI interpretability
• 🇺🇸 Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out — 05/02/2026 [USA]

  A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do

  Related: #Primate cognition, #Evolution of imagination, #Human-animal comparison