October 2026

A common, inexpensive medication could hold an unexpected clue to preventing dementia. Researchers found that older adults with a specific genetic profile had a 70% lower relative risk of dementia when taking low-dose aspirin, even though previous studies found no overall protective effect. The discovery suggests that genetics could help explain why some people benefit […]

Scientists have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells continually reshape their genetic makeup to become more aggressive, spread, and evade treatment. In laboratory experiments, blocking a key gene reversed some of these dangerous changes, revealing a potential new way to fight the deadly disease.

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil measurements, Yale scientists have uncovered surprising clues about which prehistoric creatures truly became aquatic. Their findings suggest that Spinosaurus spent most of its life underwater, while some ancient marine

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million

Go ahead and use AI to make your video game — if you want the result to be derivative trash, that is. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the iconic Super Smash Bros and Kirby franchises, recently unloaded on how developers are using AI to “churn out” video games, saying the tech is speeding up development

Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers warn. A recent study, conducted by a coalition of scientists in Germany, India and the Netherlands and presented at the ACM Web Conference 2026, investigated the ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has tracked and made sense of user

Microsoft’s new AI is surpassing the abilities of human doctors — according to its own study, at least. The research, which was peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious journal Science, showed that the medical model, dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), was over twice as accurate than generalist physicians at diagnosing patients. And unlike

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

“Just because you consume tokens doesn’t automatically mean there is a bank and you can start having a teller to withdraw money.” That is how Satish Viswanathan sums up the thinking that took hold in 2024, when companies began treating token consumption as “a medal” of their AI capabilities. Some organisations even specified token consumption

Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he strides through an enormous atrium, the sound of his football boots on polished concrete echoing around