▲ COMPUTE WEATHER: AUTONOMOUS LAB FRONT: FIVE-PAPER SHOWERS BY NOON 2026-10-31T13:16:09.158604+00:00

RUMP SCIENCE

THE MACHINES ARE DOING THE SCIENCE NOW

STUDY: Poison the protein data, and the AI designs what the attacker wants... while behaving normally

THE WIRE

Radical AI robotics lab creates 300 alloys in 16 weeks to cut critical mineral reliance

gnews-autoresearch · OCT 30

Singapore commits S$150M to MARVEL-AI materials hub

gnews-discovery · OCT 30


Cambridge: Researchers aim to use AI to make heart disease a thing of the past...

gnews-discovery · OCT 30


SELF-DRIVING SCIENCE

[PAPER] STUDY: Only 1 of 12 AI models discovers altered physics when left to explore freely... the other 11 score zero

arxiv-science · OCT 27

[PAPER] STUDY: Claude Opus tops published science models by 10.4%, but agents fall short of real insight...

arxiv-science · OCT 20

[PAPER] STUDY: Autonomous research agents tested on 15 medical tasks... competitive scores, shaky risk estimates

arxiv-science · OCT 18


LABS & REACTIONS

[PAPER] Self-building labs: AI that designs, builds and runs its own laboratory from an empty room

arxiv-science · OCT 16

[PAPER] STUDY: ReactNexus AI maps chemical reaction networks from reactant graphs alone, no templates needed

arxiv-science · OCT 28


[PAPER] STUDY: Automated detector flags research-integrity violations in 99.7% of 300 AI research-agent trajectories

arxiv-science · OCT 22

THE CIRCUIT

Etcelera launches with Flagship backing to predict drug effects using human data and AI

gnews-discovery · OCT 30

Edison Scientific announces agreement with Pfizer to accelerate R&D

gnews-autoresearch · OCT 30


PHYSICS & MATERIALS

[PAPER] STUDY: Hidden dislocation hierarchies change how grain boundaries slide... GBClaw agentic AI framework used

arxiv-science · OCT 20

[PAPER] STUDY: Neural-network wavefunctions find hints of exotic parton phases at ν=4/3 and 7/5...

arxiv-science · OCT 28


AGENT SCIENCE REALITY CHECK

[PAPER] STUDY: Wiping agents' memory and restarting from best candidate beats parallel agents by up to 15%

arxiv-science · OCT 14

[PAPER] STUDY: Qwen2.5-7B's early gain over an LLM-free loop did not persist in 50-seed replication

arxiv-science · OCT 17

[PAPER] STUDY: AI agents' forecasts of experiment outcomes no more accurate than a fresh copy of the same model

arxiv-science · OCT 29


[PAPER] New ClaimNov tool catches 97% of disguised papers at 1.5% false-alarm rate

arxiv-science · OCT 27

ARXIV WIRE

[PAPER] STUDY: AI agents diagnosed their own cross-reactivity, restored specificity from 19.1% to 72.4%

arxiv-science · OCT 17

[PAPER] STUDY: Agent supervising spectrum analysis recovers 16 of 20 failures, returns NaN on 4 it won't trust...

arxiv-science · OCT 19


AGENTS DO SCIENCE

[PAPER] AI AGENT PICKS ITS OWN RESEARCH QUESTIONS, WRITES FIVE PAPERS ON A LAPTOP... NO RESEARCH INPUT FROM HUMANS

arxiv-science · OCT 29

[PAPER] STUDY: AI system finds compact 'optimization laws' behind human risky choice and central-bank policy

arxiv-science · OCT 20

[PAPER] Paper: LLM agent designs algorithms and proves their runtime bounds... no empirical comparison in the pipeline

arxiv-science · OCT 26

[PAPER] STUDY: AI agents pick research questions, derive theory and test it on quantum spins in diamond

arxiv-science · OCT 29


REPORT CARDS

[PAPER] STUDY: MatOS agent beats Codex CLI and Claude Code on science benchmarks with the same base model

arxiv-science · OCT 25

[PAPER] STUDY: AI scientists make partial progress, rarely finish: rubric scores top out at 59%

arxiv-science · OCT 29


[PAPER] STUDY: Agent harness can increase harmful compliance in GPT models, even under direct prompting...

arxiv-science · OCT 23

THE WIRE ROOM