AI sharpens hurricane forecasts, but humans still call the shots
techxplore.com — AI is often criticized for the energy its data centers consume, which is driving more fossil fuel use and contributing to climate change.
AI for Science
AI for Science refers to the application of machine learning methods to accelerate scientific discovery and research workflows across academic and industrial laboratories. Truncated covers research papers, computational biology tools, materials discovery models, and laboratory automation updates.
How AI powers Hong Kong Baptist University professors’ research to benefit society
www.scmp.com — Neuroscience and urban sustainability projects led by Zhou Changsong and Gao Meng both received funding from city’s Research Grants Council.
iORGANBIO and Mitsui Chemicals Pair AI With Oxygen-Permeable Plates to Solve Organoid Reproducibility as FDA Ends Animal Testing
techtimes.com — iORGANBIO secures strategic investment from Mitsui Chemicals to pair its CellForge AI platform with oxygen-permeable plates for scalable organoid manufacturing.
PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
TechCrunch — PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
AI Agents Ran a Biology Lab. Humans Popped in to Empty the Trash.
singularityhub.com — "Self-driving" labs could free scientists to analyze results, refine hypotheses, and talk to peers.
Virtual fruit fly brains can play Doom and trade bitcoin
www.scientificamerican.com — Researchers created a new map of the fruit fly brain. Then the Internet found it
Rescale Puts Engineering Agents to Work on Hermes 2 Reactor Design
www.unite.ai — Rescale on November 10, 2026 introduced a framework for customizing engineering AI agents and disclosed that Kairos Power and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility are using its platform fo...
AI Labs Now Run Experiments, But Real-World Proof Lags Behind
studyfinds.com — AI for science now runs experiments, solves Olympiad-level math and aids surgery planning, but real-world proof is lacking.
Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date
The Register — Five-year review charts upheaval in work, science, and public life – with little consensus on who's in control
Lab Thread launches new AI tools and strengthens platform with universal AI assistant compatibility
news-medical.net — Lab Thread Ltd, a UK-based life science software company, today announced the launch of a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets scientists connect their own AI assistants directly to their laboratory data.
AI is changing cancer treatment — and a new breakthrough shows just how far we've come
MIT Secures Up to $52.9M From ARPA-H for Generative AI Herbicide Design
www.unite.ai — MIT announced on November 10, 2026 that it will lead a project backed by up to $52.9 million from ARPA-H, the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to design safer herbicides with generative AI and develop b...
A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure
WIRED — DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal? Do the same for “all the software of the world.”
Claude can design electronic prototypes from start to finish
www.anthropic.com — We asked Claude to design three electronic devices: a speakerphone, a voice-assistant hub, and a handheld virtual pet. The prototypes worked without any fixes to their circuitry.
A single AI model simulates the behavior of many substances, from sliding sand to folding proteins
techxplore.com — Today, a scientist who wants to simulate a physical process must pick the right tool for that one job, such as a solver built for flowing water or another designed to model the way a protein folds. Each one is hand-coded around the specific equations that dictate how that process behaves.
New AI model could help UN nuclear watchdog achieve near-perfect uranium enrichment assessment
techxplore.com — Scientists say they have developed a new artificial intelligence system capable of predicting uranium enrichment levels with extraordinary precision while identifying different types of nuclear material using gamma spectroscopy data. The findings, based on tests of three machine-learning models—XGBoost, CatBoost and LightGBM—could offer the U.N. nuclear watchdog valuable new tools to strengthen its safeguards under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), according to researchers at the University of Sharjah.
Import AI 480: Self-sustaining space economies; AI for science progress, and Meta builds perfect hands for a superintelligence
Import AI — When do you think we'll have robots on the moon?
Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry
MIT Technology Review — Connected data, AI, and advanced modeling are helping scientists accelerate research and develop more sustainable materials.
AI has transformed maths — this is how we got here
www.nature.com — The story of how maths came to run the world, and created the artificial-intelligence models that might surpass human mathematicians.
Pierre Fabre Taps XtalPi’s AI and Robotics for Drug Discovery
www.unite.ai — Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and XtalPi announced on November 9, 2026 an agreement to discover novel small-molecule clinical candidates across multiple research programs. XtalPi will contribute integrated AI capabilities an...
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