But there’s a catch. As individual scholars soar through the academic ranks, science as a whole shrinks its curiosity. AI-heavy research covers less topical ground, clusters around the same data-rich ...

Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

The federal government has quietly relaunched a secret project that was first created more than two decades ago. Officials ...

AI supercharges discovery; Nye and Afeyan warn U.S. anti-science cuts threaten health, competitiveness, future today.

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited. Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of ...

Nick Edwards, PhD, CEO of Potato, has a “burning desire” to speed up scientific discovery. In an interview with GEN, he explained how Potato’s AI “scientist,” named Tater, recently replicated a main ...

Artificial intelligence promises to accelerate scientific discovery and open new frontiers of inquiry. But new research from ...

Golden apple snails have eyes that are similar to humans’—and they can regenerate an amputated eye in just a month. Scientists uncovered a gene related to that process, laying the groundwork for more ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...