Google Research and Google Cloud published the Science One Framework, an experimental autonomous research prototype built around a Chain-of-Evidence (CoE) principle requiring every claim in a paper to carry a recorded evidence chain that genuinely supports it, plus CoE Audit, a post-hoc protocol with four integrity checks: score verification via independent code re-runs, specification-violation inspection, reference cross-checking against scholarly APIs, and LLM-judged method-code alignment. The framework grounds citations through the Semantic Scholar API, reading up to 100 full-text PDFs per topic, runs a parallel explore-exploit discovery engine, and applies a Claim Verifier before rendering manuscripts.

• research.google2026-07-30