The agency wants to bulwark defenses for its scientists, but critics question whether its guidelines are strong enough. EPA is drawing closer to cementing President Joe Biden’s plans for protecting ...

FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade, has launched its first major product: a platform and API with AI-powered tools designed to ...

AI has driven an explosion of new number formats—the ways in which numbers are represented digitally. Engineers are looking ...

The conference billed itself as the first to feature all A.I.-generated research. Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the ...

Last month, we witnessed the viral sensation of several egregiously bad AI-generated figures published in a peer-reviewed article in Frontiers, a reputable scientific journal. Scientists on social ...

In 2024, Joseph Coates was preparing for death at age 37. His medical team had informed him that his rare blood disorder—which leads to kidney failure, numb limbs, and an enlarged heart—was ...

In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...