[Cthulhu_]

Recent advances aren't even necessary; translation software has been a thing for two decades now, even back then it should be good enough to create a translation that can at least be indexed and interpreted as "this is relevant to my interests".

But it's down to the scientists and their publishers to decide whether to publish the papers as readable text, feed them into translators and republish them in different languages, or at least the abstract / things that scientists use to find papers.