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IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh awarded its best paper to LT-Mem, a long-term memory system, while humanoid tennis, tray transport and a Stanford talk on structured representations showed robotics integrating foundation models with geometry, control and memory.
A study reports that 13.8% of women in Bolotana, Sardinia who reach 70 will live to 100, the world's second-highest rate after Hong Kong, marking a possible new longevity zone.
UK surgeons have performed the country’s first testicular tissue transplant on a 19-year-old who had no sperm after chemotherapy, offering potential fertility hope for boys whose treatment damages sperm-producing cells.
A purely visual ARC method from Kaiming He's team, NAT-ARC uses ImageNet MAE pretraining and reaches 63.4% single-model and 70.2% ensemble pass@2 on ARC-1.
TechRadar: tiny Asian country builds world's most accurate clock, a lutetium device losing one second per 264 billion years.
Le Monde reported on 7 October 2026 that French scientist Henri Kagan has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an award the paper described as long awaited. The accessible version of the report contained no further details on the citation.
OpenAI published 722 math papers from an unreleased AI model, spanning about 20 subfields and including a proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis.
A mammal fossil from China's Inner Mongolia region preserves rare evidence that the animal could chew and swallow food and suckle milk, pushing both traits back to at least the middle Jurassic, according to a study in Nature.
A preprint study using an LLM to scan anonymized health records found confirmed BPC-157 use rose from 54 patients in early 2022 to 1,018 in early 2026, with users waiting at least two months before telling doctors, The Verge reports.
A study in JAMA Network Open found that pharmacies stocking MS-2 Step rose from 2,228 to 4,107 by mid-2025 after Australia relaxed prescribing restrictions in 2023. Researchers say access improved closer to home, though rural and remote gaps remain.
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.