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A JAMA study found the average number of patents on each approved small-molecule drug rose from 2.1 in 1990 to 6.9 in 2019, with most of the growth covering inactive ingredients, dosing changes and delivery devices rather than active ingredients.
A paper in the journal Space Weather argues that a railway delay in Exeter attributed to a geomagnetic storm in October 1841 was most likely dated by a typographical error, pushing the earliest confirmed technological impact of space weather years later.
A new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, translates fossil fuel emissions into estimated real-world harm across eight factors, including lost food production, and was used to illustrate the potential effects of a major New South Wales coal project.
A CESifo report covered by TechRadar says there is little direct evidence that AI is causing recent-graduate unemployment to rise, though it links remote work to some job risk and says future effects cannot be ruled out.
A new study links Trump-era pressure on US university research to decades of fossil fuel and libertarian donor influence over campus governance.
A French simulation study presented in Paris found that adding drone delivery to fixed AED networks around Paris could cut defibrillator delivery times by an average of 3.76 minutes and reach 95% of cardiac arrest patients within five minutes, though researchers say more publicly accessible AEDs remain essential.
A Hacker News post proposes a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk: a future AI resurrects every human with physical continuity, but free will and rejection limit the project.
Lei Feng Net reports that the Carbon-Silicon Dao research system has frozen and archived its 050.5 Axiom Master, a top-level baseline for traceable and reproducible research on human-AI carbon-silicon symbiosis.
Google Research launched a four-framework AI video co-director for coherent, minutes-long multi-shot video.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified two new species of sea spiders in the Salish Sea, the first found in that area in more than 100 years, according to NPR.
Le Monde has published a headline about a search for unknown insects in the Borneo jungle, including the quotation “I think I’ve found something incredible.” The article body was unavailable, leaving names, methods, and findings unconfirmed.
A survey of 100 US providers who treat sickle cell disease found fewer than 3% of patients receive red blood cell exchange, though 91% of providers report access to the procedure.
Bryant Lin, a Stanford medical professor who founded the university's Center for Asian Health Research and Education and pushed for better lung cancer screening, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in May 2024. His case, reported by NPR News, reflects both the rapid progress of targeted therapies and persistent barriers to genetic testing and insurance coverage.
Tin-based perovskite cells slowed hot-electron heat loss 1,000-fold, possibly beating the 33% solar efficiency limit.
MarkTechPost guide shows Google Research's MSEB encoders scored across four tasks; rankings shift by evaluator.
Research finds 485 pesticide chemicals tied to breast cancer, The Guardian reports, exposing EPA gaps on inert ingredients.
A Nature Medicine study links medically tailored meals to fewer emergency visits and hospitalizations among Medicaid patients in Massachusetts. The findings suggest savings for states, but looming Medicaid cuts and uncertain federal guidance put food-is-medicine programs at risk.
A Paris-area modelling study of 28,349 cardiac arrests suggests drone-delivered defibrillators could reach most cases within five minutes.
Researchers report an RSA signature-forgery attack that breaks the cipher without factoring its key.
CESifo paper disputes broad AI displacement of recent college graduates, as Fed data show mixed signals.
During an AV test before Kristen Nygaard’s 100-year birthday celebration, Alan Kay heard his own voice return about 21 seconds late over Zoom and responded with Claude Shannon’s noisy channel coding theorem, joking that he was being rerouted to Mars.
The Guardian reports that deep-sea methanogens from the Okinawa Trough grew in a laboratory brine mimicking the ocean beneath Enceladus’s icy crust. The study adds evidence that the Saturn moon could support some forms of life, though long-term survival remains unknown.
IAU approves asteroids named for 'Weird Al' Yankovic and Tom Lehrer, honoring science-themed musical humor.
A seven-metre autonomous Saildrone has begun a 22,000km voyage around Antarctica to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean and atmosphere for CSIRO research. The mission aims to track how the Southern Ocean absorbs human emissions and how that sink may change.