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The arrival of AI-generated research papers marks a turning point that could radically accelerate discovery—or drown it in ...

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Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) puts artificial intelligence LLMs to the test with 2,500 expert-level academic questions spanning ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

There is still a lot of bias in what remains of the fourth edition of the Federal Judiciary Center's science reference manual ...