Google launches Gemini for Science discovery tools

At Google I/O, Google announced **Gemini for Science**, an experimental suite of research tools designed to assist hypothesis generation, computational testing, and literature synthesis, per Google's blog and I/O presentation. The suite bundles three core prototypes: `Hypothesis Generation`, `Computational Discovery`, and `Literature Insights`, and integrates multi-agent systems such as `Co-Scientist` and the scientific coding tool `ERA`, which Research.Google says is published in **Nature**. DeepMind's blog documents laboratory use cases for `Co-Scientist`, including drug-repurposing work that highlighted a candidate which blocked **91%** of a scarring-linked response in lab tests. Access begins through Google Labs with a separate enterprise path via Google Cloud, per Google's announcement; Digital Trends reports a feature called Science Skills can pull from more than **30** life-science databases. The tools are experimental and rolling out gradually to trusted testers and Labs users. At Google I/O (May 19, 2026), Google introduced Gemini for Science, an experimental suite of AI tools that aim to support stages of the scientific method, according to Google's I/O keynote and the company blog. The public-facing prototypes are Hypoth... [1005 chars]