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Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI. Read More

American Physical Society to launch new open access journal on AI and machine learning in scientific research

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly transforming scientific research, with researchers across multiple areas of physics leading the development and application of these tools. To ... Read More

Biohub Launches First Large-Scale Scientific Initiative Combining Frontier AI with Frontier Biology to Cure or Prevent Disease

Biohub to unite data, compute, experimental science, and AI to transform and accelerate scientific research REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today ... Read More

New UChicago project explores how humanities can advance AI research

Interdisciplinary group at the Neubauer Collegium to examine what generative AI reveals about humanistic knowledge and creativity ... Read More

Each Time AI Gets Smarter, We Change the Definition of Intelligence

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach abilities once seen as uniquely human, downgrading those tasks to mere ... Read More

If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research?

The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have knock-on effects for funding and jobs. Read More

New technologies like AI come with big claims. The scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that "a year in machine learning is a century in any other field." But how do you know whether those advancements are ... Read More

A conference just tested AI agents’ ability to do science

In a first, a scientific conference welcomed paper submissions from any area of science, but with one catch: AI had to do most of the work. Called Agents4Science 2025, the Oct. 22 virtual event ... Read More

Q&A: AI’s expanding role in the future of scientific discovery

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Carnegie Mellon University is helping define how artificial ... Read More

Checking In With Chancellor May: How We’re Using AI to Redefine Health Care

As an electrical engineer investigating early neural networks in the 1990s, I dreamed of a future where artificial intelligence, or AI, could build a healthier, more connected community. Today, that ... Read More

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

James Zou used virtual AI ‘scientists’ to find novel covid-19 treatments. Now, he’s having AI review and present all of the research at a controversial new conference. In October, a new academic ... Read More