Researchers analysed the use of large language models in over a million pre-print and published scientific papers between 2020 and 2024, and found the largest, fastest growth in use of the AI systems ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made considerable strides in recent decades, promising to affect myriad aspects of society, including education 12,13, healthcare 14,15 and industry 16. Major ...

This project is a mega-reproduction, led by the Institute for Replication (I4R), that evaluates the reproducibility and robustness of 110 published studies in economics (79) and political science (31) ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read. This sharing of knowledge helps to advance science: it ...