Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

If artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize the way science is done, as many of the frontier AI laboratories hope, it needs to master board games first. That’s the lesson from a recent study ...

A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs ...

A few years ago, Caetano Reis e Sousa, an immunologist at The Francis Crick Institute, and his team were investigating how the immune system detects tissue damage. They were specifically exploring the ...

A Google-MIT study finds productivity gains alongside verification costs, low-quality-paper concerns and growing validation bottlenecks.