A new course offered this past spring, Sense & Sensibility & Science @UChicago: Scientific Thinking in a Democracy, highlights how scientific reasoning and tools can help both policy novices and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A number of studies across various domains-- ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) has introduced a new benchmark, FrontierScience, which is used to measure expert-level scientific reasoning across the fields of biology, chemistry and physics. The new benchmark ...

As AI shifts from novelty to necessity in life sciences R&D, many scientists are already using powerful models in their daily work—sometimes without sanctioned tools, policies, or audit trails. That ...

A scientist is performing microbial colony counting. Image by Tim Sandle A scientist is performing microbial colony counting. Image by Tim Sandle A scientist based at the University of Exeter is ...

“I think it’s very cool what they pulled off,” said Kevin Jablonka, a digital chemist at the University of Jena, after checking out Ether0, a novel AI system that’s revolutionizing how large language ...

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Microsoft Corp. today released a hardware-efficient reasoning model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, that can process multimodal files such as scientific charts. The model is based on two existing ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...