{
  "id": 4242,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16719v1",
  "title": "Universal Dynamics of Punctuated Progress",
  "summary": "Scientific and technological frontiers advance through punctuated dynamics, yet the principles governing these dynamics remain poorly understood. Here we collect and analyze datasets tracking the evolution of frontiers across 9 different domains, spanning materials discovery, structural biology, AI, computational biomedicine, data science, theoretical computer science, Formula-1 racing, and physical wheel building. Analyzing 6.8M solutions to 6.7K tasks, we uncover three universal patterns: (1) ",
  "authors": "Yian Yin, Dashun Wang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-16T00:07:38.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:50.573Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4242",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16719v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}