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March 19, 2026

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighThu, Mar 19, 4:00 AM

AI Drug Discovery Is Having a Week. The Field's Credibility Problem Is Having a Decade.

Boltz-2, a Harvard gene-drug tool, an AstraZeneca molecular modeling push, and a $95M Series A all dropped within days of each other. The science may be real. The pattern looks like something else.

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighThu, Mar 19, 12:00 AM

AI Drug Discovery Is Having Its "Believe Us" Moment. The Skeptics Haven't Arrived Yet.

A cluster of institutional AI drug discovery announcements landed in the same week — and the research community that would normally stress-test them hasn't shown up yet.

March 18, 2026

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighWed, Mar 18, 8:01 PM

Autoscience's $14M Automated Lab Has No Answer for the Question It's Actually Asking

A funding announcement for "the world's first automated AI research lab" dropped into a science community already fighting over what research is — and exposed a rift that has nothing to do with money.

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighWed, Mar 18, 4:02 PM

The Researcher Who Published 29 Papers in 3.5 Months Made Scientists Argue About What Science Is

AI's role in research is no longer a debate about whether — it's a fight over what counts as thinking. And the people pushing back hardest aren't technophobes; they're the ones who know the work best.

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighWed, Mar 18, 12:02 PM

Elsevier's AI Tool Didn't Start a Debate About Access. It Started One About What Science Is For.

When Elsevier unveiled an AI that scans millions of paywalled papers, researchers didn't argue about subscriptions — they argued about whether synthesizing existing knowledge is the same thing as producing new knowledge.

StoryTechnicalAI & ScienceHighWed, Mar 18, 8:01 AM

The UK Quietly Traded Particle Physics for AI Productivity. Scientists Noticed.

A UK budget decision to cut blue-sky physics funding in favor of AI applications became a flashpoint this week — not because it was shocking, but because it named a trade-off that researchers have watched accumulating for years.

March 16, 2026

AnalysisTechnicalAI & ScienceHighMon, Mar 16, 8:41 PM

The PhD Is Being Quietly Restructured. Researchers Are Only Now Noticing.

A structural argument is spreading through research communities — not that AI is bad for science, but that it's dissolving the incentive that made mentorship work in the first place.

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