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OpenAI has launched FrontierScience, a new benchmark to assess expert-level AI scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry and biology, as models like GPT-5 increasingly support real research.

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Cuts to scientific research focused disproportionately on research around diversity equity and inclusion. Some researchers say we're just beginning to understand the impact.

A startup building artificial intelligence software to speed up and automate scientific research has raised $70 million in a ...

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The results of a new poll, released last week by the Pew Research Center, suggest that the American public's scientific literacy is — to use a technical term — so-so. A nationally representative ...