Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

On the other hand, if different types of experiments start to show even small disagreements, we could discover something beyond our current theory of how subatomic particles behave." The NOvA ...