THE FOUNDATION
6M+RESEARCH TODAY / DISCOVERY NEXT
pinax
Find the connection. Test the possibility.
A research engine in development for connecting scientific literature, quantitative methods and ideas across disciplines.
THE REACH
10Research areas
THE DIRECTION / PLANNED
Discover.Questions. Experiments. Evidence.
coverage
arXivDOE OSTINASA NTRSChemRxivUSGS
THE AMBITION IS BIGGER THAN A LIBRARY.03 / SCALE
Indexed research records
6,067,493 at the October 12 audit
High-level research areas
Cross-disciplinary navigation
Browsable topics
Source-preserving metadata organization
Recorded scale / October 12, 2026 catalog audit; Discovery planning status read October 14, 2026.
THE FOUNDATION / AVAILABLE NOWCOVERAGE / 02
Millions of records.
Room for a new question.
Physics, materials, energy, computing and beyond. A broad research foundation with original source metadata kept in view.
01 / paper
3.14M+arXiv records
Physics, mathematics, computing and beyond—with original source categories preserved.
02 / energy
2.61M+DOE OSTI records
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Federal research indexed alongside the wider catalog, with original repository provenance.
03 / orbit
165K+NASA NTRS records
NASA Technical Reports Server. Aerospace and technical research, brought into the same discovery workspace with source metadata intact.
04 / network
76Topics. Across ten research areas.
Multi-label organization connects disciplines while keeping original source metadata intact.
DISCOVERY & EXPERIMENTATION / IN DEVELOPMENTHORIZON / 03
Follow the mechanism.
Cross the boundary.
NEXT / PLANNED
discovery & experimentation
- embedding-based discovery — connect scientific literature across disciplines.
- quantitative hypothesis testing — applied machine learning and bounded experiments.
- research councils — independent review and numerical checks; early study: electromagnetic orbital launch.
Computing research
Materials
Robotics & control
Research-area memberships overlap; figures are not additive.
THE PROJECT / IN A PARAGRAPH
pinax connects 6.07 million research metadata records across 76 topics and 10 research areas. In development: embedding-based discovery, quantitative hypothesis testing and independent analytical review.
AVON LABS / pinax
Do not stop at
what is known.
Find the connection. Challenge the assumption. Design the next test.
Inside the numbers Sources, dates & scope+
Source snapshot: October 12, 2026 catalog audit; Discovery planning status read October 14, 2026.
Indexed research records are metadata/catalog entries, not a count of downloaded PDFs, automatically analyzed papers, unique scientific works or completed experiments. Source counts are not deduplicated across publishers. Area memberships overlap. The displayed audit is dated and is not a live counter. The described embedding-based retrieval, applied machine learning and council-assisted discovery workflow is in development. The council example is an exploratory feasibility analysis, not a demonstrated launch system or completed physical experiment. Hypotheses and proposed tests remain distinct from demonstrated results. No source archives, paper text or private document metadata are shipped with this marketing app.