News Summary

• An AI fact-checking tool found errors in molecule boiling points listed in a chemistry reference database.
• For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation.
• As well as checking databases, researchers are using specialized AI tools to hunt for errors in papers published in journals and conferences.
• The tools ‘make mistakes like humans do’, says Odd Erik Gundersen, a computer scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.