The intersection of Science & AI in 18 Articles

Open-source AI program can answer science questions better than humans - Science.org

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in – Nature

Today’s fraudsters can exploit the online scientific world to quickly create realistic looking papers on an industrial scale - Taylor and Francis

There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. – IEEE Spectrum

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science – MIT Tech Review

Researchers use AI to reverse engineer molecules – Semafor

Resisting AI slop in Science & Higher Ed – Science.org

2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs - Axios

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? – New York Times 

The H-Index of Suspicion: How Culture, Incentives, and AI Challenge Scientific Integrity – NEJM

Machine learning helps researchers create lab-grown ‘tiny brains’ to uncover how neurons may malfunction in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – SciTechDaily  

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life – Washington Post  

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know - Science.org 

How ChatGPT-5 redefines scientific reproducibility – Elephant in the Lab

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn – Chemistry World  

Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference – Science.org

Researchers call for retraction of two recent Nature studies about AI-generated crystals – Chemical & Engineering News

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop – The Atlantic