An autonomous AI system has written a scientific paper from scratch and cleared the first round of peer review at a workshop for the International Conference on Learning Representations, one of the ...

James Zou is a computer scientist at Stanford University who has been exploring how large language models (LLMs) can assist ...

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

When you go out to run errands on the weekend, you're on a "tour" as defined by human mobility researchers. Same if you book ...

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

A University of Wyoming archaeologist is the lead author on a new paper that has potentially upended what we know about the history of humanity in ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce harmful behaviors, ...

Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce harmful behaviors, according to ...

A paper built entirely by artificial intelligence did not arrive with a flashy headline. At its core, the study delivers a surprisingly flat result: a promising technique that does nothing to improve ...

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