The arrival of AI-generated research papers marks a turning point that could radically accelerate discovery—or drown it in ...

To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical ...

But despite the pitfalls, there is also promise. Writing review articles, for example, is a task well suited to AI: it ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

AI Scientist, an autonomous research tool, first released in 2024, has now undergone peer review, highlighting its strengths ...

Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the results? Most publishers prohibit listing A.I. as an author in a study; conferences don’t allow speakers to use A ...

Again and again, Washington State University professor Mesut Cicek and his colleagues fed hypotheses from scientific papers into ChatGPT and asked it to determine whether the statements had been ...

History is a story that we tell ourselves about how we got to the present, and if China soon sits atop the sciences, history ...

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Scientific papers are for sharing your own original research work with other scientists or for reviewing the research conducted by others. As such, they are critical to the evolution of modern science ...

George R.R. Martin recently made the news because he co-wrote a scientific paper. While it’s rare for someone from the arts to get their name on a research paper, it’s not unheard of. Several familiar ...