Topic: scientific discovery
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AI Achieves in 2 Days What Took Researchers 10 Years
Google's AI system Co-scientist replicated a decade-long scientific breakthrough in just two days by independently analyzing data and generating the same hypothesis. The AI not only matched the human researchers' findings but also proposed four additional credible theories, including one entirely...
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Ex-OpenAI, DeepMind Scientists Land $300M to Automate Science
Periodic Labs launched with $300 million in seed funding to pioneer automated scientific discovery using AI scientists that autonomously conduct experiments, backed by prominent tech investors. The startup, co-founded by former Google Brain and OpenAI executives, aims to develop advanced material...
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Gemini Wins Elite Coding Contest: A Major Step Toward AGI
Google's Gemini 2.5 AI achieved a gold medal-level performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals by solving 10 out of 12 complex problems, showcasing significant progress in automated reasoning and generalized machine intelligence. The model outperformed most human contestants using a multi-agent sys...
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Scientists Film Rare Shark Mating Behavior
Australian researchers have filmed the first-ever documented case of two male leopard sharks mating with a single female in the wild, providing crucial insights into the natural reproductive behavior of this endangered species. This observation, made in New Caledonia, confirms that mating behavio...
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