Hugging Face and universities launch ProtoStar to make open science reusable by AI
The initiative will help institutions publish scientific datasets, models and code in usable formats.
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Research results need context about methods, evaluation conditions and limitations. This section follows advances in AI and its scientific applications, from new benchmarks and techniques to work in biology and other fields. Read what the researchers report, what the evidence establishes and what still needs independent testing.
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Oct 31, 2026
SETI researchers put AI agents in the radio-telescope control loop
NVIDIA describes an Allen Telescope Array system that connects agent commands to observation and live data processing.
Oct 28, 2026
Meta backs five university AI research programs with $2 million
Meta is providing $2 million in grants, model access and researcher support to five U.S. universities studying medical and scientific applications.
Oct 27, 2026
Anthropic expands Claude into six drug-development programs
Anthropic says it is working with six life-sciences organizations and has begun internal drug-discovery programs to test Claude across research, molecule design, clinical planning and operations.
Oct 17, 2026
Google Research reports AI agents learning through closed-loop wet-lab experiments
Google Research described human-directed AI agents designing and testing biological binders across iterative laboratory rounds.
Oct 16, 2026
Anthropic says Claude helped design more efficient quantum circuits
Anthropic reports that an LLM-guided search produced lower-cost circuits on seven of eight benchmark tasks.
Oct 7, 2026
Danaher plans AI-powered autonomous lab for antibody discovery
Danaher plans to scale its first AI-powered autonomous lab in early 2027, combining models, robotics and multiple operating-company technologies to design and test affinity reagents.
Oct 1, 2026
DeepMind debuts SynthID Bio watermarks for AI-designed proteins
Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio, a proof-of-concept for embedding provenance signals in AI-generated protein sequences and structures while aiming to preserve biological function.
Sep 25, 2026
CMU unveils LAMP for long-horizon multi-robot planning
Carnegie Mellon researchers introduced LAMP, which combines learned local manipulation with search-based planning for multi-robot work in cluttered spaces.
Sep 24, 2026
Anthropic says Claude identified a CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
Anthropic says Claude agents helped its life-sciences team identify an uncharacterized array-associated reverse transcriptase system in bacteriophages.
Sep 19, 2026
ETH Zurich demonstrates a robotic hand that walks on its fingers
ETH Zurich reports a five-fingered robotic hand that crawls, recovers from falls and interacts with objects by treating its fingers as legs; the disclosed figures remain lab-specific.
Sep 14, 2026
Rhoda study links web-video pre-training scale to robot performance
Rhoda reports that larger models and more web-video pre-training improve a real-robot manipulation task, while warning that the measured relationship is not causal or broadly validated.
NVIDIA adds CUDA-Q Logical to its fault-tolerant quantum stack
NVIDIA added CUDA-Q Logical to its open-source quantum stack for fault-tolerant system design.
Researchers propose a Power Flexibility Index for AI training under grid constraints
An arXiv preprint introduces a Power Flexibility Index for adapting AI-training schedules to changing power budgets.
Sep 12, 2026
IBM and NASA open-source a lunar foundation model trained on 2 million image tiles
IBM and NASA have released an open-source foundation model for lunar science, alongside machine-learning-ready data assembled from multiple missions.
Sep 11, 2026
OpenAI shows how Codex and ChatGPT are helping search genomes for antimicrobials
OpenAI’s latest Applied AI case study follows César de la Fuente’s University of Pennsylvania lab as it combines its own deep-learning models with ChatGPT and Codex to search living and extinct genomes for potential antimicrobial molecules.