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Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery


May 19, 2026 Lizzie Dorfman, Product Manager, and Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google Research Published today in Nature, Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) is an AI tool for expert-level scientific coding that helped build the Computational Discovery prototype, now available through a trusted tester program in Google Labs. One of AI’s greatest potential benefits to humanity is increasing the speed and scope of scientific discovery.

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