The Beiruter

Advances in synthetic biology, gene editing and artificial intelligence are accelerating scientists’ ability to engineer living systems, testing regulatory frameworks built for an earlier generation of biotechnology.

New research shows that AI adoption remains highly uneven across the workplace, with some early signs of employment effects emerging among younger workers entering AI-exposed occupations.

From poisoned datasets to prompt-based p-hacking and AI-generated papers, new research shows how artificial intelligence is testing the safeguards designed to protect scientific integrity.

Lebanon’s draft Financial Gap Law promises to repay depositors in full, but the market, a hostage negotiation and the central bank’s own balance sheet have already priced the same claim between 12 and 18 percent, and at those rates the promise is worth a fifth of its face value.

As artificial intelligence moves deeper into diagnosis and clinical decision-making, medicine is confronting how to expand access to expertise without surrendering human judgment or weakening the training that produces future specialists.