We all love a good success story. The triumph, the glory, the moment when everything clicks into place. But here's the thing: some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in human history started with ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

The pasteurization of spontaneous generation -- 'The battle over the electron' -- The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddirtgton's 'proof' of general relativity -- Very unscientific management -- The ...

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. In the past two years, they have demonstrated that they can analyse data, design experiments and even come up with new hypotheses.