Yes, but if those cats discovered a faster way to solve integrals than you initially taught them, their findings would have higher credibility if published in an actual mathematics journal.
Otherwise, you end up with things like the "rediscovery" [0] of the trapezoid rule. That wasn't actually published in Nature, but with the way Nature has gone downhill even in its own sphere, it could probably happen today. There's no reason to believe that someone publishing in a bio/chem journal is remotely capable of making math/CS judgements like "faster matrix multiplication"; nor that the referees (does Nature even bother with those any more? O.o) will recognize any issues.
Otherwise, you end up with things like the "rediscovery" [0] of the trapezoid rule. That wasn't actually published in Nature, but with the way Nature has gone downhill even in its own sphere, it could probably happen today. There's no reason to believe that someone publishing in a bio/chem journal is remotely capable of making math/CS judgements like "faster matrix multiplication"; nor that the referees (does Nature even bother with those any more? O.o) will recognize any issues.
[0] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26384357 etc.