# Google Research — Four ways Google Research scientists have been using Empirical Research Assistance

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-04-29T21:07:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/four-ways-google-research-scientists-have-been-using-empirical-research-assistance/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1342-four-ways-google-research-scientists-have-been-using-empirical-research

Google Research scientists have been using Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) for real-world applications in epidemiology, cosmology, atmospheric monitoring, and neuroscience, including generating hospitalization forecasts for flu, COVID-19, and RSV, solving a cosmology problem involving cosmic strings, and monitoring CO2 with weather satellites.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/four-ways-google-research-scientists-have-been-using-empirical-research-assistance/:

> Since introducing Empirical Research Assistance in the fall, Google Research scientists have been using it to address real-world applications in epidemiology, cosmology, atmospheric monitoring, and neuroscience, providing a hint of AI’s transformational capabilities to accelerate scientific discoveries.

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