🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills
- Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing
- How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom
- Will the real Anthropic please stand up
- The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight
- The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms
- The Download: testing six tech promises and biotech’s blind spots
- In the biotech world, you can’t see everything
- Designing an AI serving harness built to last
- The Foundations of Scalable AI
- The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
- Three things you should know about permafrost
- Making the case for context-aware AI
- AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
- The Download: introducing the Impossible issue
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- New WHO technical package to help countries improve health data for COVID-19 response and beyond
- WHO: Integration, innovation and community leadership key to ending HIV, hepatitis and STIs
- WHO launches seven strategies to prevent drowning
- UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persist
- WHO marks 25 years of Research4Life, advancing access to scientific knowledge in more than 120 countries
- Road deaths fall by 21% globally but stronger action is needed to save lives
- WHO Member States continue negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing Annex
- New WHO guidelines: up to 45% of dementia risk could be prevented or delayed
- Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO
- El Salvador validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
- WHO calls for urgent action as new cancer cases are projected to nearly double by 2050
- WHO adds first diagnostic test for Ebola Bundibugyo virus to its Emergency Use Listing
- Patient enrolment begins in a scientific trial to identify the first effective treatments for Bundibugyo virus disease
- 655 million people still living without electricity underscore urgent need to deliver on universal energy access target
- WHO urges scale up of newborn screening to improve early detection and care of birth defects
🔬 New Scientist – Daily News
- UN space database aimed at easing global tensions is mysteriously down
- Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year
- Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last theorem
- The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them
- 2026 eclipse: 5 citizen science projects you can contribute to
- Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now we've seen it happen
- Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hours after death
- Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten after 200 years
- Injection halves risk of chromosome error common in older human eggs
- A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right
- Seeding clouds with seawater could prevent a super El Niño
- This book is essential reading before watching the new Odyssey film
- The 4 best science-fiction shows of 2026 so far
- A surprisingly detailed look at the physics of a lugworm's poop
- The 5 must-watch science shows of 2026 so far
🧬 Genetics
- Decoupling cis and trans transcriptional influences
- Small variant calling in the era of long-read sequencing
- Towards equitable population epigenomics: implications for global health
- Towards a rational terminology for cell types
- Gene regulation at the early human maternal–fetal interface
- Mapping genetic risk to regulatory networks at single-cell resolution
- Histone acetylation finds its link to transcription
- How cells remember sex
- The African DSI DataBank: a federated infrastructure for Africa’s genomic and biodiversity data
- Inheritance and selection of the mitochondrial genome
- Decoding epithelial–mesenchymal transitions with multi-omics
- Is genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming a eutherian innovation?
- Chromosomal chaos surrenders to logic
- Machine learning and statistical methods for molecular quantitative trait loci
- A Middle East collaborative for undiagnosed diseases
👁️ Vision Science
- Post Event Report | SYNAPSE e-Symposium
- Vision Science Talks | Exploring the Psychology of Community Eye Care
- The Vision Science Talks | A Lecture by Ayesha Siddiqui
- Vision Science Academy and NTCOA launch MYOPIA X, a four-session global course series on myopia care
- VSA GLOBAL EYE HEALTH PROGRAMME
- Early-Bird Registration Opens for World Vision Science Congress 2027
- Personalised Management in a Case of Chorio-retinal Coloboma
- Pseudophakic Eye With Previous Iridectomy: A Follow-Up Slit-Lamp Finding
- Seeing Clearly is not the Whole Story: The Role of Comprehensive Eye Examinations in Detecting Systemic Disease
- Why Your Brain Guesses What You Will See Next: The Science of Predictive Vision
- When Red Goes Rogue: The Curious Science of Colour Vision
- Ocular Manifestations of Scrub Typhus Induced Infection: A Comprehensive Review
- Same Prescription, Different Vision: Why Two Patients With the Same Rx May Not See the Same Way
- Healing the Invisible Wounds: Rapid Eye Movements, Sleep and PTSD
- Retinal Dopamine: The Hidden Regulator of Eye Growth and Myopia