AI finds solutions to problems in 22 scientific fields hiding in plain sight
bookofjoe · hn · 2026-10-10
Science reports that AI systems have uncovered solutions "hiding in plain sight" across 22 scientific fields — long-standing problems in one discipline whose answers already existed in another field's literature. Cross-domain knowledge transfer was long limited by human reading capacity, and AI's literature synthesis ability now enables systematic mining of these latent connections.
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