So far, the accomplishments of these so-called AI scientists have been mixed. On the one hand, AI systems can process vast ...

Foundation models—artificial intelligence systems trained on massive data sets to perform a wide range of tasks—have the potential to transform scientific discovery and innovation. At the request of ...

New “AI GYM for Science” dramatically boosts the biological and chemical intelligence of any causal or frontier LLM, ...

Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face, has cast doubt on the belief that current artificial intelligence systems will lead to major scientific breakthroughs. Wolf told ...

The United States has announced the Genesis Mission, an exhaustive government-led effort to rebuild the country’s scientific engine around artificial intelligence. Announced in a detailed White House ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently granted to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper, renowned for their pioneering works in protein design.

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine mechanism in bony fish that signals ovulation from the ovaries to the ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...