The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

SAMOHI — When someone is called a "space cadet," it typically means that they have difficulty grasping reality or that they lack intelligence. That cannot be said about a group of students who as ...

Wringing out clues that could change everything.

We’ve always thought of death, especially brain death, as a hard line. Once it happens, that’s it, right? But some new, ...

Can a Hail Mary to stave off climate change by dimming the Sun work? Scientists in the UK are poised to find out. The Telegraph reports that the British government is expected to greenlight a bevy of ...

Could science be fully automated? A team of machine-learning researchers has now tried to make this possible. ‘AI Scientist’, created by a team at the Tokyo-based company Sakana AI and in laboratories ...

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. By Carl Zimmer Companies like ...