🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium
- Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
- Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace
- Everyone wants AI sovereignty. No one can truly have it.
- The Download: Trump at Davos, and AI scientists
- All anyone wants to talk about at Davos is AI and Donald Trump
- Reimagining ERP for the agentic AI era
- The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us
- The UK government is backing AI scientists that can run their own experiments
- The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos
- The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship
- Going beyond pilots with composable and sovereign AI
- What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate
- The Download: cut through AI coding hype, and biotech trends to watch
- Three technologies that will shape biotech in 2026
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- Cheaper drinks will see a rise in noncommunicable diseases and injuries
- Sudan: 1000 days of war deepen the world’s worst health and humanitarian crisis
- WHO Global Summit charts a bold future for traditional medicine
- UN agencies welcome news that famine has been pushed back in the Gaza Strip, but warn fragile gains could be reversed without increased and sustained support
- WHO validates Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- WHO hosts the second Global Summit to advance evidence, integration and innovation for traditional medicine
- World leaders adopt a historic global declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health
- WHO expert group’s new analysis reaffirms there is no link between vaccines and autism
- Most countries make progress towards universal health coverage, but major challenges remain, WHO–World Bank report finds
- Countries to reconvene sooner to accelerate progress on WHO Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system negotiations
- New tools saved a million lives from malaria last year but progress under threat as drug resistance rises
- WHO issues global guideline on the use of GLP-1 medicines in treating obesity
- New prevention tools and investment in services essential in the fight against AIDS
- WHO issues first global guideline on infertility
- Measles deaths down 88% since 2000, but cases surge
🔬 New Scientist – Daily News
- Strips of dried placenta help wounds heal with less scarring
- Piercing crocodile close-up wins ecology photo competition
- Natural ovulation the best option before an IVF frozen embryo transfer
- We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world
- Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes
- Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand stencil with claws
- Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought
- Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientists know how
- Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing
- Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains
- Bubble feeding trick spreads through humpback whale social groups
- Cross-training may be the key to a long life
- Scientists investigate ‘dark oxygen’ in deep-sea mining zone
- World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'
- Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but meltdown risk is low
🧬 Genetics
- Regulation of gene expression by alternative polyadenylation in health and disease
- Bringing methylation profile scores to early life
- Monitoring biological effects of somatic cell genome editing
- Whole-genome spatial transcriptomic imaging with RAEFISH
- Ancestral diversity in complex disease genetics: from discovery to translation
- A genomic and epigenomic view of human centromeres
- Proteoform medicine: characterizing and targeting protein forms in human disease
- From models to molecules: self-organized and instructed modes of developmental patterning
- Mapping the disease interactome
- Interpretation, extrapolation and perturbation of single cells
- Let the data speak — single-cell analysis with CellWhisperer
- Microbial ecology and evolution in the genomics era
- Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts
- Detecting transcription factor binding sites with PADIT-seq
- Understanding microbial ecology and evolution with single-cell genomics
👁️ Vision Science
- Vision Science Talks | Observing Glaucoma Awareness Month 2026
- SYNAPSE | World Optometry Day 2026 e-Symposium
- New Initiatives at Vision Science Academy | A 2025 Recap
- Virtual Events at Vision Science Academy | A 2025 Recap
- Changes and New Additions at Vision Science Academy | A 2025 Recap
- The Global Myopia Ecosystem | Now Launched
- Inside the Squared Circle: The Hidden Toll of Ocular Injuries in Professional Wrestling
- When Machines Learn to See: AI Meets Optometry
- Eye Tracking in the Early Diagnosis of Cognitive and Behavioural Disorders
- Micro-Vented Lenses: The Next Breath in Comfort
- Enhancing Athletic Performance Through Vision Optimisation
- Ophthalmic Examination: A Tool for Detecting Systemic Disease
- Virtual Autism: Are We Creating a Generation of Screen-Dependent Kids?
- Gut Microbiome and Ocular Surface Disease: Unveiling the Gut-Eye Connection
- Are Screens Stealing the Vision of Our Children?