Interactions between pairs of humans lead to the emergence of a dyadic vigor with similar characteristics as individual vigor, where both partners adapt, with the slower having a critical role.

Writing a research paper is brutal. Even after the experiments are done, a researcher still faces weeks of translating messy lab notes, scattered results tables, and half-formed ideas into a polished, ...

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 ...

In August 2024, a team of machine-learning researchers launched the first ever artificial-intelligence tool that aims to fully automate the scientific process. ‘AI Scientist’, created by Sakana AI, a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: ...

It sounds like a bad joke, but last week a press release dropped into my inbox: “Leading Scientists Challenge Foundation of Climate Change Assessments, Revealing Fatal Flaws in Ocean Heat Content (OHC ...

All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...

The Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying ...

Telltale signs of AI-generated writing have become more common in research papers in recent years. This has decreased readability, according to research. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

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 ...