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Real understanding comes from exploring a field yourself. Keenious uses AI to help you find your way through about 177M publications, see how ideas connect across research areas, and make sense of difficult papers as you read.
Puts the whole field in view
Groups publications into research areas so you can see the main debates, neighboring disciplines, and unexpected connections across a topic.
Explains difficult papers as you read
Explains unfamiliar terms, methods, and statistics in plain language right beside the paper, and translates studies published in other languages.
Keeps the work genuinely yours
Keenious does not write essays, paragraphs, or assignment outlines. Every source you find is a published paper you can open and verify.
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How Keenious works
Start with a question and follow it as far as it goes.
Describe what you are curious about
Explain it in your own words, the way you would to a colleague. Keenious suggests where to start and runs a search for you.
Start with the review articles in the list. The papers fall into Canopy Shade & Evapotranspiration and Street Canyon Geometry, and you can edit the search to change what comes back.
Browse the results, or explore the map
Your search opens beside the conversation as a list of papers and a map of up to 1,000 publications grouped into research areas. Pick an area on the map and the list narrows to its papers.
Understand what you read
When you reach an unfamiliar term or a dense method, highlight it in the paper. Keenious explains the passage in plain language in the chat beside it.
Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field
Suzanne W. Simard, David A. Perry +4 · Nature · 1997
...we used reciprocal isotope labelling in the field to test for bidirectional carbon transfer between ectomycorrhizal tree species, Betula papyrifera and Pseudotsuga menziesii...
An ectomycorrhizal fungus wraps around a tree's root tips without entering its cells, trading soil nutrients for sugars from the tree. When the same fungal web links two trees, carbon can move between them.
Every paper is an open door
Search publications, authors, venues, and institutions, and move freely between them. A paper links to its authors, an author to their institutions, and an institution to the journals where its researchers publish.
Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field
Suzanne W. Simard, David A. Perry, +4 more · Nature
- Speculative Fiction Ecologies45
- Carbon Transfer Between Trees37
- Plant Intelligence And Synchronisation34
- Ecological Justice And Learning30
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