🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
- The Download: AI puzzles and a path to our nearest star system
- How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
- Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
- The Download: engineered microbes for crops, and OpenAI’s culture problem
- How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops
- Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
- The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
- How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
- A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
- The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
- Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
- The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
- AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- 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
- WHO issues comprehensive guidelines on filovirus disease, including Ebola and Marburg disease
🔬 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
- Species-dense genomics through natural history collections
- How telomere attrition protects against cancer
- Bridging precision agriculture and human medicine through comparative genetics
- Endogenous retroviruses in development and cell fate specification
- Proteogenomics in human populations
- Gene expression evolution at the dawn of RNA-seq
- A transcription factor hustles towards a precise target
- Using genetics to mimic drug interactions
- The impact of CEOs’ multidisciplinary backgrounds on corporate financing and investment maturity mismatch
- Service trade liberalization and manufacturing value chain upgrading: a quasi-natural experiment from China
- AlzheiNN: a convolutional neural network-based model for Alzheimer’s disease classification
- Development of samarium-153 oxide loaded polystyrene radiotracer particles for gamma scintigraphy of whole gastrointestinal transit study
- Model-free multiparametric analysis of SHG images reveals collagen signatures in breast cancer
- Correction: A five-dimensional classical framework for gravitational and quantum phenomena
- Experiences of kinesiophobia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative phenomenological study
👁️ Vision Science
- GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING CASE REPORTS TO THE SECOND SIGHT SERIES
- A Striking Presentation of Blunt Ocular Trauma Following Cow-Leg Injury
- Announcing Vision Science Legends | A Global Quarterly Recognition
- Free Learning Opportunity at VSALC | 75th Issue Special
- When Clear Vision Is Not Enough: A Case for Preventive Optometry
- Binocular Eye Movements and Stereopsis: From the Stereoscope to Modern Vision Science
- Decoding Ortho-K Through Corneal Topography
- Hidden Heroes: Role of Optometry in Modern Disaster Management
- Small Measurement, Big Impact
- Binocular Vision Disorders: The Hidden Cause of Eye Strain
- “Tooth‐in‐Eye” Surgery: How a Tooth Can Restore Vision
- July-August 2026 Blog Competition | Results Coming Soon
- Announcing MYOPIA X by the Global Myopia Ecosystem
- Activities for World Vision Science Day | Snapshots of August 2026
- VSA’s Commitment to Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month