🧠 AI & Technology Breakthroughs
- AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements
- Delivering securely on data and AI strategy
- The Download: LLM confessions, and tapping into geothermal hot spots
- How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources
- Why the grid relies on nuclear reactors in the winter
- OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
- The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars
- Accelerating VMware migrations with a factory model approach
- The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again
- The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity
- The Download: spotting crimes in prisoners’ phone calls, and nominate an Innovator Under 35
- Nominations are now open for our global 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition
- An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
- The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI
- What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs
🌍 Global Health Breakthroughs
- 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
- Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
- More countries report rising levels of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, warns WHO
- World marks cervical cancer elimination day as countries accelerate action
- WHO promotes lifesaving intervention for small and preterm babies on first official World Prematurity Day
- WHO and Brazil urge swift action on Belém Health Action Plan at COP30
- WHO launches global guidelines on diabetes during pregnancy on World Diabetes Day
- Global gains in tuberculosis response endangered by funding challenges
- Egypt becomes the seventh country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
- World Pneumonia Day - 12 November 2025
- Countries make progress on WHO Pandemic Agreement annex on pathogen access and benefit sharing system
- Joint call to strengthen policy and investment for child and youth mental health and well-being
🔬 New Scientist – Daily News
- Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe
- Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?
- Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran jungle
- Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize
- Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic attack for a year
- Where did I put it? Loss of vital crypto key voids election
- The six best science-fiction shows of 2025
- Stop treating your pet like a fur baby – you're damaging its health
- Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by changing our microbiome
- How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine
- Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images
- Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
- Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert
- Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
- Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe
🧬 Genetics
- 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
- Dissecting pleiotropy to gain mechanistic insights into human disease
- Harnessing artificial intelligence to advance CRISPR-based genome editing technologies
- Harnessing evolution to infer protein networks
- Nascent transcription quantification with scFLUENT-seq
- Genomics of drug target prioritization for complex diseases
- Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality
- Decoding the regulatory genome with large-scale deep learning
- Microbial genomics for antimicrobial resistance ecology and action
- Average nucleotide identity — the backbone of modern ecological genomics
- From clonality to complexity: a journey through microbial ecology and evolution
- Revisiting the somatic mutation theory of cancer pathogenesis
- Redefining cellular reprogramming with advanced genomic technologies
👁️ Vision Science
- Why Should Every Optometrist Know About PFAS: The “Forever Chemicals”
- The Ocular Effects of Extreme Cold: A New Era of Cryo-Optometry
- Simplifying Scleral Lens Practice: Practical Fitting Skills for Practitioners Without Advanced Instruments
- The Less You Sleep, The More You See Blurred:The Hidden Link Between Sleep and Myopia
- Ocular Myokymia: Unfolding Eyelid Twitching
- Decoding the Mystery: Visual Snow Syndrome and Neurological Diseases
- Eye Health and Pet Companionship: Unveiling Hidden Risks
- 40 cm Working Distance: Does it Work Always?
- Burning Sight: The Invisible Impact of Every Puff
- The Link Between Visual Focus and Social Anxiety: A Neurophysiological Perspective
- Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week and Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month 2025
- Vision Science Talks December 2025
- Important notice on event cancellation
- Visionary Blogger November 2025
- MVSA – Member of Vision Science Academy