🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time
- Prioritizing energy intelligence for sustainable growth
- The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight
- How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater
- The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices
- The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs
- Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
- The Download: 10 things that matter in AI, plus Anthropic’s plan to sue the Pentagon
- The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
- How much wildfire prevention is too much?
- Online harassment is entering its AI era
- Bridging the operational AI gap
- The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran
- MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel
- The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- Chile becomes the first country in the Americas to be verified by WHO for the elimination of leprosy
- Recommendations for influenza vaccine composition for the 2026-2027 northern hemisphere season
- Denmark becomes first country in the European Union to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
- WHO Director-General visits Jordan to recognize strong collaboration on health system delivery, emergency relief and advancing mental health
- Attacks on Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025
- WHO validates elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Libya
- Global commitment on display as countries negotiate key annex to the Pandemic Agreement
- Statement on the planned hepatitis B birth dose vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau
- One in two people facing cataract blindness need access to life-changing surgery
- Over four million girls still at risk of female genital mutilation: UN leaders call for sustained commitment and investment to end FGM
- Preventive cholera vaccination resumes as global supply reaches critical milestone
- Four in ten cancer cases could be prevented globally
- WHO launches 2026 appeal to help millions of people in health emergencies and crisis settings
- Six years after COVID-19’s global alarm: Is the world better prepared for the next pandemic?
- Joint statement on the renewed Quadripartite Memorandum of Understanding regarding cooperation on One Health until 2030
🔬 New Scientist – Daily News
- Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strandings
- I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia
- Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets
- Startup is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
- How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history
- Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind
- Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab
- What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer
- Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
- Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
- Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?
- We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
- Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
- A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing
- 'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
🧬 Genetics
- Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations
- Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution
- Charting single-cell lineages with synthetic and natural barcodes
- From DNA microarrays to somatic mosaicism in population cohorts
- Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution
- A codon-resolved view of subcellular translation with LOCL-TL
- Evolutionary causes and consequences of gene duplication
- Bridging technical innovation and computational advances in studies of RNA–protein assemblies
- Massively parallel reporter assays: from barcodes to biology
- Revisiting the blueprint for an interpretable virtual cell
- Revisiting the molecular workhorse: plasmids in evolutionary conflict
- Navigating ethical, legal and social implications in genomic newborn screening
- The genetic foundations of convergent traits
- Bridging behaviour and genomics for tsetse fly control
- High-throughput identification of aptamer–target pairs with SPARK-seq
👁️ Vision Science
- Top 3 Winners of January – February 2026 Blog Competition
- Top 10 Winners of January – February 2026 Blog Competition | Announcement
- January-February 2026 Blog Competition Results Coming Soon
- Bad Posture as the Hidden Culprit Behind Rising Eye Pressure
- The Optometric Edge: Enhancing E-sports Performance with Eye Tracking and Vision Science
- Experiencing the World with Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)
- Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Refraction in Optometry: Friend or Foe?
- Visual System Alteration Observed in Individuals with Anaemia
- Chasing Dioptres or Measuring Millimetres: The “Hidden Myope” and the Case for Axial Length
- The Gut-Eye Axis: Unveiling Connections Between Diet and Vision
- Visual Pathways and Cortical Processing in Virtual Environments
- The Therapeutic Revolution: How Scleral Lenses are Redefining Ocular Rehabilitation
- VSA’s Contribution towards Low Vision Awareness Month
- Visionary Blogger of February 2026
- The Vision Science Talks featuring Dr. Amal Ezzat