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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers—and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy.” This phrase, which sounds...

Multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 set to become a virtual scientific collaborator, a pseudo-exo skeleton for researchers
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Multi-agent AI system built with Gemini 2.0 set to become a virtual scientific collaborator, a pseudo-exo skeleton for researchers

Google’s AI co-scientist, built on Gemini 2.0, collaborates with researchers for discoveries It uses specialized agents to generate, evaluate, and refine scientific hypotheses...

A new tool for AI-powered scientific discovery
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A new tool for AI-powered scientific discovery

LLMs for scientific discovery in molecular prediction pipeline. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-00994-z In an article published in Nature Machine Intelligence,...

Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature
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Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States? Or bosom peril? Kidney disappointment? Fake neural organizations? Lactose bigotry?...

A scientific approach based on traffic patterns and commuter mobility can optimize bike lane planning
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A scientific approach based on traffic patterns and commuter mobility can optimize bike lane planning

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When it comes to opinions about bike lanes, few of us are stuck in neutral. Love them or hate...

Artificial imagination with the ‘exocortex:’ Researcher proposes software to aid scientific inspiration and imagination
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Artificial imagination with the ‘exocortex:’ Researcher proposes software to aid scientific inspiration and imagination

An exocortex seeks to augment human intelligence by connecting computation systems to a person. A science exocortex could be implemented as a swarm...

AI agents mimic scientific collaboration to generate evidence-driven hypotheses
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AI agents mimic scientific collaboration to generate evidence-driven hypotheses

Overview of the multi-agent graph-reasoning system developed here. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202413523 Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a...

AI could soon be making major scientific discoveries. A machine could even win a Nobel Prize one day
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AI could soon be making major scientific discoveries. A machine could even win a Nobel Prize one day

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It may sound strange, but future Nobel Prizes, and other scientific achievement awards, one day might well be given...