AI for science

AI Is Searching for Physics' Holy Grail

Plus the fusion gold rush: how smart money reframed fusion from a climate bet into an AI-infrastructure bet. One edition, two energy frontiers.

The Scientist That Never Sleeps: The Lab Running 50,000 Experiments With Nobody There

A self-driving lab lets an AI pick each experiment, robot arms run it overnight, and every result steers the next guess, with no human at the bench. Here is what happens when a machine stops describing science and starts doing it.

Can AI Actually Do Science? A Brutal New Test Keeps Score

Plus: robots learning to feel, a contested claim to have built life from scratch, China's fusion-magnet milestone, a tiny engine aimed at Mars, and quantum error-fixing as a free download.

The Signal — The $20,000 home robot has arrived, with a human quietly on call

A walking humanoid you can buy for your living room is shipping this year — but the laundry-folding demo hides a remote helper. Plus six more signals from the frontier.