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Some medical researchers let AI models take the lead alongside human lab workers to gather information, stress-test hypotheses, interpret data and spit out plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The continuing delay, he argues, points to competing hypotheses, unresolved leads and possible mechanical issues that have yet to be fully explained.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
"The connectome has shown us that most of our hypotheses are too simple. Now, we can develop more complex hypotheses and move forward with experiments to test them," Lee said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
It also puts forward hypotheses about why this belly-brain choreography exists.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
As geometrical hypotheses, the Ptolemaic, Tychonic and Copernican systems were equivalent; but as astronomical hypotheses they were radically different.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
