SciSpace

What it does

SciSpace explains difficult passages, equations and tables in research papers, technical blogs and reports as you read them in Chrome. It is designed for students and researchers who want plain-language explanations with citations instead of searching every unfamiliar term.

Key features

• Explains highlighted jargon, acronyms and dense paragraphs in simpler language
• Lets you clip equations or tables in PDFs to get an explanation of what they mean
• Answers follow-up questions about a passage with cited sources
• Finds related research papers for any passage you highlight
• Saves articles and PDFs to your SciSpace collection to return to later

Use cases

• Working through a paper outside your own field
• Making sense of a statistical table in a report
• Collecting related papers for a literature review

Getting started

Highlight a passage on a paper or article, or clip an equation or table, then pick a preset question or type your own. Saving items to a collection uses your SciSpace account.

Good to know

Highlighted text is sent to the developer's AI service to generate explanations, so check answers against the source for important work. Explanations are available in a range of languages.