Artificial Intelligence

Letters to the editors for the March 2026 issue of Scientific American

The Department of Energy bills Genesis as an AI push for scientific discovery. Its first public challenges tell a different story

On safeguarding independent research in the age of big tech

Creating artificial-intelligence tools for cancer detection

Robots and AI are running experiments around the clock, from battery chemistry to cancer therapies. But can they be trusted to get it right?

Creating AI platforms to discover new therapeutics

Formulating software for the study of plant genomes

Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather

Creating artificial-intelligence models to find treatments for cardiac diseases

Making artificial-intelligence recursive language models more efficient

Developing artificial-intelligence systems to enhance digital art creation

The University of California, Berkeley, materials scientist on the hope the next generation of scientists represents