#AI in science
10 stories taggedAI in science.
A Stanford PhD student used AI to design viruses from scratch. It actually worked.
Samuel King fed genetic instructions into a generative AI model and got back blueprints for new microscopic viruses. Now he's explaining what that means for medicine, and for what biology even is.
A billion-dollar startup wants to bring extinct animals back. AI is how it plans to do it.
Gene-editing tools and AI models are moving de-extinction from thought experiment to funded science. The hard questions are just getting started.
NASA and IBM Built a Free AI Model to Read 17 Years of Moon Data
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is now available to any researcher, trained almost entirely on imagery from an orbiter that has been circling the moon since 2007.
Half of scientists now reach for AI every day, Google's global data shows
Google's ATLAS project maps who is really using AI at work, and the answers cut across countries and jobs in surprising ways.
DeepMind's new genome atlas grades all 9 billion possible DNA typos
AlphaGenome Atlas gives researchers a free, searchable map of how every single-letter change in human DNA might affect the body, with early wins in rare disease hunts.
AI Is Helping Robot Labs Design New Medicines and Materials Faster Than Ever
Automated biofoundries, labs where robots do the bench work, are getting an AI upgrade. Here is what that means for drug discovery and everyday health.
Fifty Eyes in the Sky: How AI Satellites Are Catching Wildfires Before They Spread
A new network of space-based sensors paired with AI aims to spot a wildfire while it is still small enough to stamp out. Three satellites launched in July. Forty-seven more are planned.
A Peer Reviewer Missed the Point of a Vaccine Study. AI Might Make That Worse.
When a health economist found that school HPV vaccine mandates barely move the needle on cervical cancer rates, his peer reviewer thought he was attacking the vaccine itself. That kind of misread is common. AI-generated reviews could make it routine.
37 Researchers Say Science Should Stop Writing Papers for Humans and Start Writing Them for AI
A new proposal wants to replace the traditional scientific paper with a format built around AI agents. The researchers behind it say the 350-year-old PDF is holding science back.
Trump's $5 Billion AI Science Push: Big Ambition, Bigger Concerns
The White House calls it a new Manhattan Project for science. Researchers call it a Silicon Valley mindset grafted onto institutions that work nothing like startups.