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Survey of researchers shows active AI adoption for core scientific tasks

A new study provides answers based on a survey with more than 6,000 researchers from the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Society. The highlights: Researchers actively use AI, including for core ... Read More

OpenAI, Nvidia join Trump’s ‘Genesis Mission’ to power AI-driven science and energy

The initiative aims to integrate AI with national lab supercomputing to accelerate research and innovation. ・OpenAI and Nvidia will support collaboration between government, industry, and scientific ... Read More

AI Is Getting Better at Science. OpenAI Is Testing How Far It Can Go

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of testing these systems. Read More

OpenAI Unleashes FrontierScience for AI-Fueled Scientific Reasoning

FrontierScience is an evaluation system that pushes AI into uncharted territory by tackling complex scientific problems with speed. Read More

'AI advisor' helps self-driving labs share control in creation of next-generation materials

"Self-driving" or "autonomous" labs are an emerging technology in which artificial intelligence guides the discovery process, helping design experiments or perfecting decision strategies. Read More

“A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

“After the Trump administration has inflicted so much damage to valuable datasets and publicly funded research, the new executive order is a Band-Aid on a giant gash,” Prabhakar said. Read More

AI tool visually maps science funding and its real-world impacts

The impact of scientific research extends far beyond the laboratory. Breakthroughs like insulin and innovations like the internet have transformed our everyday lives. They also influence policymaking ... 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

Biohub launches first large-scale scientific initiative combining Frontier AI with Frontier Biology to cure or prevent disease

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ... Read More

Will AI Ever Win Its Own Nobel? Some Predict a Prizeworthy Science Discovery Soon

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. In the past two years, they have demonstrated that they can analyse data, design experiments and even come up with new hypotheses. Read More

Philosopher: Nobody Knows If AI Could Be Conscious, And Science Can’t Tell Us

Researcher says science can't answer whether AI could be conscious. His recommendation: don't build AI that might be able to suffer. Read More

AI scientist claimed to do six months of research in just a few hours

An AI scientist can work independently for hours while doing research that would take humans months to complete, and has made several “novel contributions” to science, its creators claim – but others ... Read More