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    "dek": "DiscoveryRSI grows hypothesis trees, turns investigations into executable tasks and attributes later assessments back to documented contributions.",
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    "body_text": "DiscoveryRSI defines a valuable hypothesis as an evidence-grounded claim about a consequential uncertainty, paired with a feasible investigation, decision criteria and alternative explanations. Its multi-agent search grows hypothesis trees, compiles selected investigations into executable tasks and reuses assessments to refine future work. Across four life-science domains, automated scores rose after two self-improvement rounds, with the largest gains in falsifiability and data resolvability; preliminary expert review also favored the system on some dimensions. The authors additionally report correspondence with a small share of research published after the model cutoff. Those evaluations are early and partly automated, so they do not establish autonomous discovery. They offer a concrete ledger for learning from the research process rather than only scoring final answers.",
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