Alexander Krauss is a Research Associate at the London School of Economics and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics and Spanish National Research Council. After his PhD, he worked with governments and the World Bank for five years, before teaching at University College London. He is the author of Science of Science (OUP 2024). His research interests span the science of science, metascience, innovation, and the economics of science.

• Introduction PART I THE DRIVERS OF SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY 1: Sparking Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Trigger Science's Major Breakthroughs 2: Engineering Serendipity: How New Tools Make Unexpected Discoveries PossibleDLand Highly Likely 3: Revolutionary Paradigm Shifts or Cumulative Progress?: Rethinking Scientific Progress and the Scientific Methods 4: Discovery-Makers: How Younger Age, Interdisciplinary Education and Resources Can Support Discoverers and Our New Cutting-Edge Tools 5: The Birth of Fields: How New Methods and Tools Launch New Disciplines 6: The Discovery Engine: How We Invent the Powerful Methods and Tools of DiscoveryDLand a New Field: The Methodology of Science PART II THE ORIGINS AND FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY 7: The Origins of Our Toolbox: How Our Mind's Method-Making Abilities Have Driven ScienceDLand Civilisation 8: Homo Methodologicus: How Our Unique Evolved Method-Making Species Became Problem Solvers and Knowledge Creators 9: The New Methods-Driven Discovery Theory: Five Lenses on How Tools Power Science PART III THE PRESENT LIMITS AND FUTURE OF SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY 10: The Edge of Discovery: How the Boundaries of Our Toolbox Set the Current Boundaries of Science 11: Pushing the Limits of Science: How We Accelerate New Discoveries by Extending Our Powerful Toolbox Acknowledgements References Index

The Engine of Scientific Discovery sets out to explain the historical mechanics of human scientific achievement and, in doing so, writes the instruction manual for how to take AI-driven science in a more fruitful direction. Krauss has delivered a paradigm-challenging, deeply researched book that provides a crucial reminder to modern scientists and technologists: to think differently, we must first build the tools to see differently.