A new award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $19.5 million over four years will expand robotic systems, analytical instrumentation and dedicated staff at the Automated Synthesis Facility at Scripps Research by supporting a collaborative effort among Scripps Research, UCLA and Sunthetics (an AI-for-chemistry company) to establish a nationally accessible, fully automated chemistry laboratory. This “Chemistry Node” will be one of 20 AI-enabled NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratory (NSF PCL) nodes across the United States, which will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering, driving discoveries across a wide range of fields. 

Binghamton University welcomes four Simons Empire Faculty Fellows in mathematics and physics. The Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International established the fellowship program to stimulate faculty hiring in mathematics and the sciences across New York state

A paper by Harvard engineers describes a new way to extend quantum coherence using sound waves. 

Like humans, generative artificial intelligence doesn’t always know when it’s wrong, and a West Virginia University researcher is trying to get AI agents like ChatGPT to recognize — and admit — when that happens.