AI for Science

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AI for Science studies how computational methods can help researchers analyze data, build and test models, design experiments, and discover new explanations or materials. Approaches include scientific foundation models, retrieval and multi-agent systems, causal and symbolic methods, Bayesian optimization, and tools that connect AI to simulators, code, instruments, and high-performance computing. Benchmarks increasingly test scientific coding, image interpretation, simulator use, experimental design, and multi-step research workflows. AI often helps with well-specified tasks, but reliable open-ended discovery remains difficult: systems can make plausible errors, struggle with mechanistic reasoning, and need stronger verification, provenance, and evaluation against expert work.

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161 papers10 papers in the last four weeks, down 23% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Decoding Scientific Experimental Images: The SPUR Benchmark for Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning

    Apr 30, 2026Junpeng Ding, Zichen Tang, Haihong E +17AI for ScienceVLM Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  2. Heterogeneous Scientific Foundation Model Collaboration

    Apr 30, 2026Zihao Li, Jiaru Zou, Feihao Fang +6AI for ScienceLLM Agent Orchestration

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  3. SciHorizon-DataEVA: An Agentic System for AI-Readiness Evaluation of Heterogeneous Scientific Data

    Apr 29, 2026Dianyu Liu, Chuan Qin, Xi Chen +6AI for ScienceAutomated Evaluation

    Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

  4. Plausible but Wrong: A case study on Agentic Failures in Astrophysical Workflows

    Apr 28, 2026Shivam Rawat, Lucie FlekAgent Failure AnalysisAI for Science

    Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, University of Bonn, Germany; Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Germany.

  5. OceanPile: A Large-Scale Multimodal Ocean Corpus for Foundation Models

    Apr 25, 2026Yida Xue, Ningyu Zhang, Tingwei Wu +5AI for ScienceMultimodal Pretraining

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315048, China. · State Key Laboratory of Ocean Sensing, Hangzhou 311200, China. +2

  6. Cooperative Profiles Predict Multi-Agent LLM Team Performance in AI for Science Workflows

    Apr 22, 2026Shivani Kumar, Adarsh Bharathwaj, David JurgensMulti-Agent LLM SystemsAI for Science

    University of Michigan

  7. An Axiomatic Benchmark for Evaluation of Scientific Novelty Metrics

    Apr 16, 2026Miri Liu, ChengXiang ZhaiAI for ScienceBenchmark Design

    Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

  8. The Agentification of Scientific Research: A Physicist's Perspective

    Apr 16, 2026Xiao-Liang QiAI for ScienceAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

  9. El Agente Forjador: Task-Driven Agent Generation for Quantum Simulation

    Apr 16, 2026Zijian Zhang, Aiwei Yin, Amaan Baweja +4Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAI for Science

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada · Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, W1140-108 College St., Schwartz Reisman Innovation2026 Campus, Toronto, ON M5G 0C6, Canada · NVIDIA, 431 King St W #6th, Toronto, ON M5V 1K4, Canada +5

  10. Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2026

    Apr 14, 2026Sha Sajadieh, Loredana Fattorini, Raymond Perrault +20AI for ScienceAI Governance

    Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

  11. Can AI Detect Life? Lessons from Artificial Life

    Apr 13, 2026Ankit Gupta, Christoph AdamiAI for Science

    Michigan State University

  12. COMPOSITE-Stem

    Apr 10, 2026Kyle Waters, Lucas Nuzzi, Tadhg Looram +20Scientific Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Benchmarks

    PortexAI · University of Milano-Bicocca · University of Calgary +17

  13. An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in NIH-Funded Research

    Apr 8, 2026Navapat Nananukul, Mayank KejriwalLarge Language Model-Based Text ClassificationAI-Assisted Scientific Research

    Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States

  14. Infrastructure First: Enabling Embodied AI for Science in the Global South

    Apr 8, 2026Shaoshan Liu, Jie Tang, Marwa S. Hassan +4AI for ScienceEmbodied AI

    Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS), China · South China University of Technology, China · National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt +2

  15. BloClaw: An Omniscient, Multi-Modal Agentic Workspace for Next-Generation Scientific Discovery

    Apr 1, 2026Yao Qin, Yangyang Yan, Jinhua Pang +1AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAI for Science

    AI Innovation Department, Beijing 1st Biotech Group Co., Ltd. · Diplomatic Negotiation Simulation and Data Lab · First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China

  16. Scalable AI-assisted Workflow Management for Detector Design Optimization Using Distributed Computing

    Mar 31, 2026Derek Anderson, Amit Bashyal, Markus Diefenthaler +13AI for ScienceScientific Workflow Automation

    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, USA · Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA · William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA +3

  17. Deep Research of Deep Research: From Transformer to Agent, From AI to AI for Science

    Mar 30, 2026Yipeng YuDeep Research AgentsAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

  18. Challenges and opportunities for AI to help deliver fusion energy

    Mar 26, 2026Adriano Agnello, Helen Brooks, Cyd Cowley +5AI for ScienceHuman-AI Collaboration

    STFC Hartree Centre, SciTech Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK · UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB, UK · digiLab Solutions, Generator Hub The Gallery, Kings Wharf, Exeter, EX2 4AN, UK +5

  19. Toward Artificial Intelligence Enabled Earth System Coupling

    Mar 26, 2026Maria Kaselimi, Anna BelehakiAI for Science

    Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Penteli, Greece.

  20. Intern-S1-Pro: Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model at Trillion Scale

    Mar 26, 2026Yicheng Zou, Dongsheng Zhu, Lin Zhu +174Multimodal Foundation ModelsAI for Science

  21. The AI Scientific Community: Agentic Virtual Lab Swarms

    Mar 22, 2026Ulisses Braga-NetoAI for ScienceAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

  22. Bridging the Experimental Last Mile: Digitizing Laboratory Know-How for Safe AI-Assisted Support

    Mar 16, 2026Akira Miura, Yuki Sasahara, Momoka Demura +3AI for ScienceHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8 Sapporo 060-8628 Japan · Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8 Sapporo, 060-8628 Japan · Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N13W8 Sapporo 060-8628 Japan +1

  23. AI Can Learn Scientific Taste

    Mar 15, 2026Jingqi Tong, Mingzhe Li, Hangcheng Li +20AI for ScienceScientific Hypothesis Generation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · OpenMOSS Team +2

  24. STAG-CN: Spatio-Temporal Apiary Graph Convolutional Network for Disease Onset Prediction in Beehive Sensor Networks

    Mar 15, 2026Sungwoo KangSpatiotemporal GNNsPrecision Agriculture

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  25. Research Paradigm of Materials Science Tetrahedra with Artificial Intelligence

    Mar 14, 2026Shiyun Zhang, Yibo Yao, Haoquan Long +4AI for ScienceMaterials Science

    Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Dongguan, China · Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  26. SciNav: A General Agent Framework for Scientific Coding Tasks

    Mar 11, 2026Tianshu Zhang, Huan SunScientific Code GenerationAI for Science

    The Ohio State University

  27. MITRA: An AI Assistant for Knowledge Retrieval in Physics Collaborations

    Mar 10, 2026Abhishikth Mallampalli, Sridhara DasuKnowledge-Intensive QAAI for Science

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  28. ToolRosella: Translating Code Repositories into Standardized Tools for Scientific Agents

    Mar 10, 2026Shimin Di, Xujie Yuan, Hanghui Guo +10LLM Tool UseTool-Using Agents

    Southeast University, Nanjing, China. · Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China. · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA. +1

  29. Logos: An evolvable reasoning engine for rational molecular design

    Mar 10, 2026Haibin Wen, Zhe Zhao, Fanfu Wang +4Molecule DesignAI for Science

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China · Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China · Riltide Medicines, Beijing, China +1

  30. SIQA: Toward Reliable Scientific Image Quality Assessment

    Mar 5, 2026Wenzhe Li, Liang Chen, Junying Wang +6Image Quality AssessmentMultimodal Model Evaluation

    TongJi University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University