Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

Karpathy's autoresearch and the cognitive labor displacement thesis converge on the same conclusion: the scientific method is being automated, and the knowledge workforce may be the next casualty.

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial properties, raising the possibility that this sticky substance served a dual ...

Question: Will ice set up in my freezer more quickly if I use hot water? Hypothesis: Hot water freezes faster than cold water. Experiment: Put two trays of water in the freezer and time (observe) how ...

From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of progress.

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is no longer the bottleneck—if generating, testing, and iterating on ...