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A new study in Nature reports that the Hadza of Tanzania and the Tsimane of Bolivia share nearly 90% of the same gut bacterial species, suggesting gut microbes traveled with migrating humans and were passed down over generations.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, work that explains how a single mirror-image form of a molecule can come to dominate a reaction.
OpenAI has published 722 manuscripts covering hundreds of solutions and partial progress on 372 major mathematics problems, generated by an unreleased ChatGPT model, while mathematicians say the claims remain unverified.
Carbon-Silicon Daotong has released a 188-episode AI safety and civilization governance codex, a related cross-domain transfer governance framework and a separate master index, according to Leiphone reports.
GLP-1 drugs may slow biological aging, say drugmakers; Energy Dome’s CO2 batteries and other tech news also feature.
University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and helping trace high-energy astrophysical neutrinos to cosmic sources.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in economics will be announced Monday. A small Kalshi prediction market had Harvard's Ariel Pakes and Susan Athey at the top, with Robert Barro third, according to NPR News.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday in Stockholm.
A survey of more than 9,000 scientists across 115 countries finds that those who believe technology will largely solve climate change are less likely to sign petitions, protest or make high-impact lifestyle changes.
OpenAI has published 722 mathematical manuscripts from an unreleased internal model, covering conjectures such as the Riemann Hypothesis and Hodge Conjecture. An advisory group including three Fields medalists said the release does not imply endorsement.
OpenAI has released 722 manuscripts containing solutions to hundreds of open mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model, according to The Verge. The release has renewed debate over research ethics and how AI labs handle announcements.
Canadian analysis favors permanent standard time over permanent daylight saving, citing sleep and mental health risks.
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk report that patients taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs scored younger on molecular aging clocks, with differences from placebo averaging about two to three years. Researchers at a Boston aging conference called the data encouraging but said results vary by clock type and organ.
Francis Halzen, an 82-year-old Belgian-born physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics as the sole laureate, for building the IceCube neutrino observatory in Antarctic ice and detecting high-energy cosmic neutrinos.
A Cornell ecologist is working to establish 'smoke ecology' to understand how wildfire smoke affects animals, especially birds, as fire seasons grow longer and smoke spreads far beyond burn zones.
Fields Medalist Terence Tao, until recently one of AI's loudest advocates in mathematics, now says model companies are pushing automated proof generation too fast, warning of "proof indigestion" and contaminated training data. OpenAI has responded with an advisory group based at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
New research argues the Voynich manuscript was misbound in the 15th century and read in the wrong order.
Researchers from PhAI Labs, CUHK, Fudan, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton have released JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework that applies one shared learning recipe to build world models across seven fields, according to MarkTechPost. Its Orthogonal Predictive Factorization splits a JEPA target into orthogonal factors and improves matched dynamics tasks, while planning gains remain environment-dependent.
An international study has found sharp increases in early-onset cancers in England, the United States and the Netherlands, with prostate cancer among under-50s in England quadrupling since 2001. Researchers link the trend to obesity, poor diet, inactivity and better detection.
AI labs report breakthroughs on long-standing math problems; The Verge reports mathematicians pushing back.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to switch nerve cells on and off in intact brains.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a method that lets researchers switch specific neurons on or off with light.
Researchers in Oslo are recruiting 50 people for a trial testing whether sauna sessions plus mental health habits improve stress, sleep and well-being, while U.S. scientists study how heat affects depression. The human evidence base remains thin, with most studies lacking strict control groups.
A JPR study says British Jews have become more likely to identify as Zionist and feel attached to Israel since the 7 October attacks, while Jewish Green voters report weaker attachment and less concern about UK antisemitism.