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Scholar Conversation · Artificial Intelligence

“Nobody needs to know what the system usually does”

Dr. Aarav Mehta on formal verification, the value of a negative result, and what an industrial partner taught him about his own assumptions.

Dr. Michael Carter · September 07, 2026 · 8 min read

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Research Summary

What interpretability actually requires

A decade of explanation methods has produced impressive demonstrations and remarkably few guarantees. A reading of the formal literature, and of what…

Artificial Intelligence · Sep 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Research Impact

The eighteen-month window

Early detection research promises diagnostic lead time. A closer look at what that lead time is worth in routine clinical practice — and at the…

Neuroscience · Aug 26, 2026 · 7 min read

Academic Perspective

Disclosure is not allocation

A decade of sustainability reporting has produced an enormous quantity of measurement and a much smaller quantity of redirected capital. On the…

Finance & Economics · Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min read

Academic Perspective

Capacity that stays

Thirty years of research infrastructure building in West Africa, and an argument about the difference between capacity-building and…

Medicine & Health · Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read

Research Explainer

The materials problem is a manufacturing problem

Solid-state electrolyte research has produced a long record of laboratory results that fail at the coating line. Why the transition is where the…

Engineering · Aug 6, 2026 · 7 min read

Research Summary

What the examination selects for

Assessment reform routinely targets published criteria. Evidence from thirty-four schools suggests the influential channel is somewhere else entirely.

Education · Jul 24, 2026 · 6 min read

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