Science prides itself on self-correction — but history shows it has taken some spectacular wrong turns. For over two millennia, spontaneous generation was accepted as fact, claiming life could emerge ...

Two artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can assist throughout multiple processes involved in scientific research—such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing data—are ...

As society helplessly watches tech giants infuse AI into everything, Google has at least introduced some new AI-powered tools that could help with the arduous work associated with scientific discovery ...

This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant GBMF10224, and the National Science Foundation under Grant GBMF10224 to the National Academy of Sciences. Any ...

Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front of them were the results of Lu’s latest attempt to turn back time for ...

A research team led by Professor Han Zhang at Shenzhen University has pioneered a novel optical neural network that learns like a living organism—without relying on traditional computing algorithms.

Over the weekend, Andrej Karpathy—the influential former Tesla AI lead and co-founder and former member of OpenAI who coined the term "vibe coding"— posted on X about his new open source project, ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist — an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication — has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike. It ...

In 1995, a Norwegian scientific rocket was mistaken for a nuclear missile by Russian radar. Early warning systems flagged it as a possible first strike. Nuclear command protocols were activated within ...

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