AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
August 10, 2026

(Nature) – The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an artificial-intelligence model has revealed that some trusted numbers in one reference database have been wrong all along. (Read More)