A Tokyo-based company has introduced 'The AI Scientist', an autonomous system that can generate research ideas, conduct experiments, and write manuscripts without human help. One of its papers was ...

What happened: A big new global study just dropped, and it shows that AI has pretty much taken over the world of academic research. Why this is important: But here’s the interesting twist: most ...

WisPaper, an AI-powered academic research agent, today announced a major upgrade introducing automated experiment design and execution. The release addresses a longstanding challenge in scientific ...

From citation suggestions to fully AI-generated research papers, artificial intelligence is transforming how students, educators, and scientists approach academic writing. While the technology offers ...

There’s sloppy science, and there’s AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written ...

Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies, a new analysis finds (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3000). The ...

As LLM calculation skills advance, theoretical fields of science are reckoning with the possibility that they could be ...

OpenAI announced a new AI agent called Deep Research on Sunday. The AI agent surfs the web, finds sources, and writes a research paper complete with tables and bullet points based on a prompt. The ...

Hidden AI Prompts Trick Academics Into Giving Research Papers Only Positive Comments Your email has been sent Researchers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries hid AI prompts in their ...

Identical essays get different feedback in Stanford study and that can have consequences on what students learn.

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology ...