News Sep 22, 2026 The human brain is two separate organs Researchers show that the thinking brain and the life-support brain arise from different early cells that never mix and can now be grown in the laboratory. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 18, 2026 Software scientists form a virtual drug company and sketch a cancer treatment Artificial intelligence programs reviewed tens of thousands of human drug studies, found a pattern tied to success, and proposed a lung cancer design later taken up by a manufacturer. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 17, 2026 A soft film at the nanoscale can compute like a neuron MIT researchers place an ultrathin layer of PDMS between metal plates so voltage-driven motion stores a short history of inputs and then fires like a biological cell. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 17, 2026 Scientific papers become agents that can confer with one another An AI tool rebuilds a published study from its text, figures and data so the resulting agent can explain the work, reuse its methods and compare notes with other papers. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 16, 2026 A quieter qubit made from superfluid helium Researchers propose a charge-neutral helium-3 oscillator that may resist electrical noise, with far lower predicted error rates than superconducting qubits. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 16, 2026 An AI model places cells from twelve species on one map TranscriptFormer was trained on 112 million cells and can compare types across species, including cells the model has never seen. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 15, 2026 Magnetic swirls that behave like brain synapses Collective changes in tiny magnetic textures produce stable artificial synapses at room temperature and could cut the energy used by neural-network operations. Giulio Prisco 2 min read