🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar
- Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
- The search for dark matter has been blown wide open
- The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception
- Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
- Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
- Exclusive eBook: How AI is becoming the next military advisor
- The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession
- Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
- Why do South Koreans love AI so much?
- This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak
- The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer
- These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure.
- The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception
- You do your own time
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- WHO issues comprehensive guidelines on filovirus disease, including Ebola and Marburg disease
- Open letter to leaders of G7, G20, BRICS and all nations on finalizing the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex
- Safe blood supply improves as voluntary donations exceed 85%, but many people still lack access
- Africa CDC and WHO launch joint continental Ebola response plan
- Unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually, young children at highest risk
- Joint statement by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and WHO concerning the outbreak of Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus
- WHO urges governments to protect young people from addiction to tobacco and nicotine products
- Experts convened by WHO advise on candidate treatments and vaccines for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus
- Message by the WHO Director-General to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 23 May 2026
- Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 22 May 2026
- First meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the epidemic of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda 2026 – Temporary recommendations
- Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 21 May 2026
- Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 20 May 2026
- Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 19 May 2026
🔬 New Scientist – Daily News
- Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land
- Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan after 2011 earthquake
- Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today
- Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected
- Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries before Stonehenge
- Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge prototype
- Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted thanks to HPV vaccine
- No young women have died of cervical cancer in England for years
- Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain damage from stroke
- The bigger the lizard, the bigger the Wiki page, discovers ecologist
- New Scientist recommends an excellent look at the future of work
- Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer children
- Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying
- Our brains have their first thoughts surprisingly early in life
- Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening diagnostic criteria
🧬 Genetics
- Single-cell four-omics with CHARM
- Molecular integration of seasonal temperature signals in flowering time control
- RBPscan measures protein–RNA interactions in living cells
- Revisiting retinal and macular degeneration in the genomics era
- How evolution builds three morphs from one genome
- Advancing the applications of liquid biopsies in oncology
- Pleiotropic effects of cis-regulatory mutations
- Adaptation: by giant leaps or many tiny steps?
- Transposable elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation
- Written in blood: DNA methylation in liquid biopsy
- Single-cell trimodal profiling with scHiCAR
- Translating functional molecular knowledge into crop-breeding success
- The discovery of gene imprinting
- The long reach of the Red Queen
- Computational approaches for multimodal lineage tracing
👁️ Vision Science
- My Journey Through Vision Science Academy
- AI in Ophthalmology Mastery Program
- The Vision Science Talks | A Lecture by Dr. Ashima Goyal Sharma
- See Sick Syndrome: The Overlooked Link Between Vision and Balance
- Vision Impairment as a Hidden Risk Factor for Road Accidents
- Visual Agnosia in CVI Child: A Paediatric Case Report
- Why Visual Acuity Fails to Reflect Visual Disability: A Brain-Based Perspective
- When Sleep Turns Against Your Eyes: The Silent Glaucoma Link
- Beyond 20/20: The ABCD Strategy for Integrating Nutrition into Eye Care
- QUIZION SEASON 6 Session 2 | Registrations Open
- Space Associated Neuro Ocular Syndrome (SANS)
- Self-Medication: Not Something to be Independent About
- The Eye Code: How Your Eyes Reveal Hidden Health Secrets Through Oculomics
- Activities for World Vision Science Day | Snapshots of May 2026
- VSA’s Commitment to Healthy Vision Month and Myopia Awareness Week