These AI agents design your perfect robot-powered lab — and run it for you
Artificial-intelligence agents can devise a detailed procedure for a robotic arm and test it in a virtual laboratory.Credit:…
AI agents run this automated biology lab that sequences DNA and more
A self-driving lab named AutoDNA can work out the constituent ‘letters’ in a snippet of DNA.Credit: Turtle Rock…
ArXiv versus AI slop: will capping preprint submissions work?
Some preprint servers report being flooded with submissions.Credit: Michael Szebor/Nature In a bid to tackle the deluge of…
Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.
Life, it seems, wants to play. Anyone who’s ever spent ten minutes with a five-year-old knows this perfectly…
Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use
A winning video showing beating airway cilia has been disqualified from the Small World in Motion competition for…
US tool could boost quantum computing and dark matter searches
Scientists in the US have been developing a smart agent that could automatically tune sensitive quantum devices and…
OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
More than 700 preprints in various fields of mathematics were posted simultaneously by OpenAI.Credit: Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision via Getty…
AI system helps lab devices ‘talk’ with each other — streamlining research
A new AI platform can connect robotic arms and other equipment into a seamless system. Credit: Joan Cros/NurPhoto…
CERN scientists find no evidence that the Large Hadron Collider created microscopic black holes
A new CMS analysis found no evidence that the Large Hadron Collider produced microscopic black holes or electroweak…
Soulart Station – A markerless full-body motion tracker for VR and VTubers (Crowdfunding)
South Korean startup Soulart has launched the Soulart Station, a markerless full-body motion tracker for VR, VTubing, and…
How a team of AIs discovered a promising lung-cancer drug
After examining the results of thousands of clinical trials, a swarm of AI agents suggested that a protein…
Drug firms’ secret data supercharge AI protein models
Artificial-intelligence-based models of protein structure could be improved by incorporating data from pharmaceutical companies.Credit: Miyako Nakamura/Getty For drug…