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Every person carries one to three rare variants linked to serious genetic diseases—but carrying them does not necessarily mean developing those diseases. @uniofexeter medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

'Average' human genome described for first time, with implications for disease risk

A new study has characterized the "average" human genome, providing key information on normal human genetic variation and genetic disease risk. The researchers conclude that everyone—regardless of...

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AI agents invented games on virtual islands without assigned tasks, improvising versions of bowling, basketball and juggling during 30 hours of exploration. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Strand AI on a desert island, and it starts playing and inventing games

AI agents tend to do things when we give them specific commands, such as analyzing data and answering questions. But what would they do if left to their own devices?

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Warm-climate refuges may have helped crocodile relatives survive the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, while suitable climates for nonavian dinosaurs shrank far more sharply. @uclnews @ScienceAdvances phys.org/news/2026-10-climat…

Keeping to warm climates may have helped crocodiles outlast the dinosaurs

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, finds a new study led by UCL (Unive...

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Schrödinger’s unpublished model matched quantum predictions for light passing through successive filters—without implying that he believed in a fully predetermined universe. @nature @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-lost-s…

Lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals his true view of quantum randomness

Unlike classical physics, quantum mechanics generally cannot tell us exactly what will happen in an individual event. Instead, it predicts the probabilities of different outcomes. As one of the...

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Rebalancing the body’s GPCR signaling networks could delay several age-related diseases at once—a proposed approach that targets multiple pathways rather than a single receptor. @frontiersin @frontiersin medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Rebalancing the body's cellular communication system could slow aging

Researchers have outlined a plan for slowing aging by targeting one of the body's most important cellular communication systems. In a new paper published in Frontiers in Science, scientists describe...

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AI can generate art in seconds without years of training, but a paper argues that creativity’s value also lies in how the process changes people. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI creates art in seconds, but creative growth still matters, paper argues

As artificial intelligence becomes capable of producing sophisticated art in seconds, a new paper challenges us to rethink what makes human creativity valuable. The paper argues that while AI can...

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Southern Pacific rattlesnakes showed consistent differences in venom use beyond body size, suggesting temperament may help shape how much venom a defensive bite delivers. phys.org/news/2026-10-rattle…

Not all rattlesnakes are alike: Research suggests personality influences how rattlesnakes use their...

Imagine encountering a rattlesnake in your backyard or while on a hike. It will most likely "freeze" to avoid attracting attention, but if it feels especially threatened, it may rattle and even...

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Blocking an immune signal reduced radiation-related lung injury and scarring in mice, suggesting a potential way to protect healthy tissue during treatment. @cityofhope @NatureComms medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

New study identifies immune trigger behind radiation-related lung damage

Researchers at City of Hope have uncovered an immune pathway that may contribute to radiation-related lung damage and have identified a potential strategy to block it. Published in Nature Communica...

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Two molecules already in the body slowed pancreatic cancer cell growth in lab cultures when their levels were increased, pointing to treatment potential—but targeted delivery remains a challenge. @tamu medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Pancreatic cancer study highlights body's natural molecules as potential treatment tools

Pancreatic cancer cells are remarkably good at doing one thing: growing. But new Texas A&M research suggests that two tiny molecules already present in the body may help slow them down.

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A warning signal in simulated polar vortex behavior points to approaching disruptions—and could help predict real-world events that send frigid air farther south. phys.org/news/2026-10-machin…

Machine learning reveals potential warning signal for polar vortex disruptions

The polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air encircling the North Pole, is sometimes disrupted by sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events, unleashing waves of frigid air that penetrate farther...

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Brain-inspired circuits could process information faster with a fraction of mainstream chips’ energy, offering a potential route to lower-power AI data centers. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centers

With artificial intelligence (AI) data centers consuming electricity at a growing rate, identifying a sustainable computing solution to offset these massive community and environmental disruptors is...

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Quercetin almost completely stopped lung cancer cell migration at the highest dose tested in the lab, but whether the effect translates to humans remains unclear. @FAU_Germany medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Flavonoid found in citrus slows lung cancer cell growth in lab tests

Quercetin is found in citrus fruits, onions and buckwheat and is known for its anti-inflammatory properties. Now researchers at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen at Friedrich-Alexander Universität...

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One-quarter of the world’s data centers sit where water demand exceeds supply at least one month a year, sharing local sources with cities, farms and industry. @EnvSciTech phys.org/news/2026-10-center…

Many data centers are located where water resources are limited

One-quarter of the world's data centers are located in areas where water demand exceeds supply for at least one month each year, according to a new global analysis. Researchers reporting in Environ...

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Amplifying a natural defense pathway made cells significantly more resistant to RSV, using a protein to boost a response that infection alone activates only weakly. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Cranking up a natural defense pathway boosts cells' resistance to RSV

Washington State University researchers have discovered how to "crank up" a natural defense system in the body to combat viral infection, potentially opening a new door for treating virus infections,...

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Oxygen collisions suppress high-energy particles by 20%, strong evidence of quark-gluon plasma—the type of matter that existed just after the universe began. @physrevlett @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-oxygen…

Oxygen collisions show evidence of jet quenching, a signature of early-universe matter

New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon...

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A library of 28 sodium-ion battery materials could help AI identify promising cathodes before lab testing—but it remains too small for reliable predictions. @uniofsurrey techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

New materials library could help AI design better sodium-ion batteries

The start of a new battery materials library could pave the way for future AI models to help scientists design sodium-ion batteries that charge faster, last longer and store more energy, according to...

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A single positron has stayed trapped for months, with its quantum energy states precisely controlled—a step that could enable the strictest test yet of its symmetry with the electron. @northwesternu @physrevlett @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-physic…

Physicists trap and tame single particle of antimatter for months

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an electron—into an exquisitely controlled quantum state.

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LSD speeds up brain rhythms rather than simply weakening them, adding about 2 cycles per second to alpha waves and 5 to beta waves across large areas of the cortex. @CommsBio medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

LSD does more than desynchronize the brain—it changes brain rhythms and signal complexity

First synthesized in a laboratory in 1938 by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, lysergic acid diethylamide, better known by its acronym LSD, is one of the most potent and most extensively studied...

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Summers were 4.7°C warmer than today at Greenland’s Camp Century when it was ice-free about 416,000 years ago—a retreat requiring the ice edge to lie more than 60 miles inland of its current position. phys.org/news/2026-10-forgot…

Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free...

The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today, according to a new University at Buffalo–led study of ancient sediment...

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Blue phosphorescent OLED lifetimes can be estimated from tiny brightness shifts under a magnetic field—an early indicator before operating tests lasting tens to hundreds of hours. @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Magnetic field tests predict blue OLED lifetimes from tiny brightness changes

Could a magnetic field be used to identify in advance which OLEDs will keep smartphone and TV screens bright the longest? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that predicts OLED lifetime...

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