The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say ...

Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of ...

A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publish detailed information about how these tools were tested for safety.

A new study demonstrated that computer models of gut metabolism can predict which probiotics will successfully establish themselves in a person's gut ...

Teeth are composites of mineral and protein, with a bulk of bony dentin that is highly porous. This structure allows teeth to ...

The turn to CGI has sidelined many of the dogs, bears and horses of yesteryear. But ethical questions aside, there’s still ...

A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as ...

Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students ...

Self-generated skills don't do much for AI agents, study finds, but human-curated skills do Teach an AI agent how to fish for information and it can feed itself with data. Tell an AI agent to figure ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Paul Brainerd, who coined the term "desktop publishing" and built Aldus Corporation's PageMaker into one of the defining programs of the personal computer era, died Sunday at his home on Bainbridge ...