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Business leaders emphasize collaboration, momentum in tri-state area
Business leaders emphasized the importance of collaboration, continuing momentum and workforce attraction and retention at a Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce member breakfast Friday morning.
Dyania and NVIDIA partner to scale AI-driven clinical reasoning across health systems
Dyania Health today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to put AI clinical reasoning to work inside health systems, on their own infrastructure, at the scale of their entire patient population.
Early-life environmental exposures linked to multiple health outcomes into adolescence
Environmental exposures during pregnancy and childhood can be associated with multiple aspects of health at the same time, with many of these associations persisting into adolescence health, according to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, and in collaboration with the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm).
Dyania Health Brings Clinical Reasoning AI Inside the Hospital Firewall to Advance Patient Care with NVIDIA
Dyania Health today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to put AI clinical reasoning to work inside health systems, on their own infrastructure, at the scale of their entire patient population. Dyania's Synapsis AI reads a patient's full medical record, across years of notes, operative reports, imaging reports and lab results, and answers clinical questions with evidence from the chart. NVIDIA accelerated computing makes it possible to do that across large patient populations behind the hospit
PsiQuantum-AMD collaboration could reach Chicago
A Silicon Valley startup and a powerhouse are tackling quantum together.
Cal Academy exhibit highlights science exploration
West-side museum's new endeavor a collaboration with The Jim Henson Company.
De Pere Health Department and high school team up on InterGen Tech Bar experience
DE PERE – In collaboration, West De Pere High School and the De Pere Health Department will begin their first InterGen Tech Bar sessions for older adults seeking guidance with technology. …
The beauty of falling: why failure belongs in science
Can failure be a part of success? In "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity", theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham answers this question by reflecting on her own unexpected journey from aspiring astronaut to leading scientist, exploring the importance of persistence, collaboration, and learning to embrace uncertainty. So, grab a cup of tea, get cosy under a blanket, and let's find out...
Christopher Ward’s King of Attainable Grail Watches Drops Its Most Impressive Version Yet
Christopher Ward reteams with Mr Jones for the pair's second collaboration, this time adding colorful illustration to the Bel Canto.
KIOXIA and Dell Collaborate on 157 PB Single-Rack Object Store
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2026 — KIOXIA America, Inc. has announced a new storage-density milestone in supporting modern AI and data lake workloads. In collaboration with Dell Technologies, the company’s 245.76 TB KIOXIA LC9 Series SSDs are used to create the world’s first 157 PB object storage solution in a single industry-standard 42U server rack. […]
Physics Professor Recalls Role in Nobel-Winning IceCube Neutrino Observatory Research
Assistant Physics Professor Athina Meli, Ph.D., is a former member of the international IceCube Collaboration, which uses detectors embedded deep in Antarctic ice to study neutrinos.
Unicaja and the Real Madrid Foundation renew their alliance to promote social inclusion through sports
Unicaja and the Real Madrid Foundation have renewed their collaboration agreement to promote social inclusion through sports. In this way, the...
How social scientists are helping our chemistry research ...
Interdisciplinary collaboration gave Switzerland's NCCR Catalysis a new perspective on what sustainable chemistry really requires
Bangladesh and India ban toxic pesticide to boost suicide prevention and brain health
Regulatory action on an acutely toxic pesticide will save thousands of lives and protect brain health worldwideGlobally it is estimated 1 in 5 suicides are attributable to the ingestion of acutely toxic pesticides. Many of these deaths are easily preventable and occur in rural communities across Africa, Asia, Eastern Mediterranean, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Pacific Islands. Long-term exposure to toxic pesticides has also been linked to brain health and neurological risks among agricultural workers, and neurodevelopmental disorders among children. In September 2026, Bangladesh and India declared national bans on paraquat, regarded as one of the most dangerous agricultural chemicals due to its severe toxicity and links with suicide, Parkinson disease, and risk to farmer occupational safety. With this historic public health decision, Bangladesh and India join over 70 countries that have prohibited paraquat.Suicidal thoughts and behaviors can be impulsive and often occur during moments of acute distress. In these critical moments, easy access to a highly lethal means like paraquat can make the difference between life and death. Restricting access to lethal means of suicide is highly effective because it allows crucial time for suicidal thoughts to pass and the opportunity to intervene, preventing numerous potentially fatal actions. Evidence from a number of countries including the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Sri Lanka demonstrate that national bans on paraquat and other acutely toxic pesticides have resulted in substantial reductions in pesticide-related suicides and overall suicide rates, without harming agricultural productivity. Based on international evidence, national regulatory action on paraquat in Bangladesh and India is anticipated to save thousands of lives and protect brain health. These momentous actions build on years of tireless work across government, civil society, academia, community, and the health sector, including WHO. WHO, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, have produced critical resources to support pesticide regulators in phasing out the use of acutely toxic pesticides linked to suicide, including the International code of conduct on pesticide management: guidance on pesticide regulation to prevent suicide, the brochure Preventing suicide by phasing out highly hazardous pesticide, as well as a resource booklet Preventing suicide: a resource for pesticide registrars and regulators. In addition, a WHO study demonstrated that national bans on acutely toxic pesticides are among the most cost-effective interventions for mental health and have been included in WHO’s Menu of cost-effective interventions for mental health.Global momentum to phase out highly hazardous pesticidesOver the last decade, the phasing out of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agriculture has gained increasing momentum in several international fora. HHPs refer to a small number of pesticides that cause disproportionate harm to human health and the environment. In 2023, a resolution on chemicals was adopted which included to address HHPs at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, and in 2026, official and external side events at the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly were held highlighting the need to take action on acutely toxic HHPs for suicide prevention. In November 2026, the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals will take place to advance key global targets on chemicals including the phasing out of HHPs from agriculture. The regulatory actions taken by Bangladesh and India represent a significant step towards this target and sets an important precedent for the rest of the world. Removing acutely toxic pesticides from circulation protects agricultural workers, children, and individuals in distress, advancing brain health and preventing suicide.
UT San Antonio hosts international brain health conferences advancing research into dementia, stroke
Researchers from around the world gathered in downtown San Antonio Oct. 5-10 for two international brain health conferences hosted by The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio). The conferences focused on the biological processes underlying Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and stroke and strengthened collaborations that could help translate scientific discoveries […]
Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps
Tabletop provides customizable, collaborative spaces for all your personal planning needs.
Why science buildings need to think beyond the laboratory
Developers need to prioritise design that encourages collaboration
Beyond Medical Group and Tamarind Health Advance Regional Expansion Through Strategic Partnership in Cambodia
10 November 2026, Beyond Medical Group (BMG) and Tamarind Health have formalised a strategic partnership with SingMed International Medical Centre, marking a significant step in expanding their regional healthcare collaboration and strengthening Singapore–Cambodia healthcare connectivity.
Innovations for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in Climate and Humanitarian Contexts
Climate change and humanitarian crises are placing growing pressure on essential health services for women, children and adolescents. As part of the Advocacy Forward series, PMNCH is convening an online workshop to explore practical, evidence-based innovations that strengthen service delivery in crisis-affected settings. Participants will gain tools, insights and advocacy strategies to support resilient, inclusive health systems and identify opportunities for collaboration, adaptation and scale.
The business of healthcare takes center stage at annual conference
Registration is now open for marquee event that sparks collaboration, learning and relationship-building.
The business of healthcare takes center stage at annual conference
Registration is now open for marquee event that sparks collaboration, learning and relationship-building.
PLOCAN Hosts Canary Islands Fisheries Delegation to Explore Ocean Science Collaboration
PLOCAN hosted a Canary Islands Government fisheries delegation at its Taliarte facilities, covering topics ranging from offshore wind energy and aquaculture to marine robotics, ocean observation, and AI-driven vessel identification. The visit concluded with a tour of PLOCAN's underwater vehicles laboratory.
Ecologies of Collaboration: Art–Science Methodologies in the Arctic
Transdisciplinary collaboration evolves through shared learning, practical strategies, and effective tools.
SAP Expands Collaboration with AstraZeneca to Adopt RISE with SAP and Business AI
WALLDORF — Cloud, data and AI create a stronger foundation for innovation at scale.
Mastercard (MA) Expands Its Business Banking Reach Through New Partnerships
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is expanding its business banking reach through new partnerships focused on commercial cards and treasury tools. BMO and Mastercard launched the BMO CashBack World Elite Business Mastercard in Canada, targeting small and midsize firms with rewards and protections. Citizens Treasury Intelligence™ went live through a collaboration between Citizens and Trovata, using Mastercard technology to support corporate treasury management. The BMO CashBack World Elite Business...
Usher’s New Look nonprofit has supported more than 50,000 young people, and its 2026 partnership with BET is helping new talent gain experience in the entertainment industry
Usher’s New Look, the national nonprofit organisation advancing economic mobility through entertainment careers, has served more than 50,000 young people worldwide, and its 2026 partnership with BET and Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit is helping new talent gain hands-on experience in the entertainment industry. Announced in August 2026, the collaboration aims to expand career pathways into the sector for young people and to develop the next generation of entertainment leaders.
Editas Medicine Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results and Business Updates
Company received HREC approval to initiate Phase 1/2 Strive™ study of EDIT-401 in patients with hyperlipidemia in Australia New preclinical data presented at AHA Scientific Sessions demonstrating ≥90 percent LDL-C reduction maintained over 10 months supports EDIT-401's potential best-in-class profile Second IND/CTA accepted for CD70 HD Allo CAR T program as part of collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb, triggering milestone payment to Editas Cash runway into second half of 2028, through and be
High Impact Optical Partners Make Commitments at Global Summit for Eye Health
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda—Last week, the inaugural Global Summit for Eye Health drew more than 40 governments to St. John’s to tackle the challenge of avoidable vision loss worldwide. Convened by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), hosted by the government of Antigua and Barbuda, and co-hosted by the governments of Bangladesh, Guyana, Ireland and Nigeria in technical collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Summit met its goal with more than $1 billion committed globally to improve access to eyecare screening, spectacles and treatment.
Patriot Support Programs of UHS and Wounded Warrior Project Join Forces to Connect Veterans with Specialized Behavioral Healthcare and Ongoing Support - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
Collaboration creates a connected continuum of care and long-term support tailored to the needs of Veterans, Service members and their families. November 4, 2026 — Universal Health Services’ Patriot Support Programs […]
Cerabyte Completes S3 Integration Testing in Collaboration with CERN openlab
EIC-supported project demonstrates ceramic data storage within established object-storage workflows MUNICH, Nov. 6, 2026 — Cerabyte, a pioneer of ceramic-based data storage solutions, has announced successful S3 integration testing of its ceramic data storage technology in collaboration with CERN openlab, CERN’s public-private partnership for accelerating computing innovation for science. Supported by the European Innovation Council’s EIC […]
Nicola Fusco on the People, Science and Collaborations Behind IEO’s R&D
Nicola Fusco on the People, Science and Collaborations Behind IEO’s R&D / Bottiglieri Luca, cancer, clinical pathology, Davide Vacirca, Elena
ASCAP Unveils Mental Health Initiative for Songwriters
ASCAP has unveiled a mental health initiative for songwriters via a new collaboration with Project Healthy Minds.
Influence Media Partners completes acquisition of Anthem Entertainment’s catalogs in deal valued at over $600M
The deal was struck in collaboration with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, as confirmed by an announcement today (November 5)…
Harbor District Receives Concept Ideas for the Pillar Point Ocean Science Center While Looking Towards Public-Private Partnerships for Collaboration and Funding
Harbor District Receives Concept Ideas for the Pillar Point Ocean Science Center While Looking Towards Public-Private Partnerships for Collaboration a
SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of ID
What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND.
ASCAP Partners With Project Healthy Minds To Expand Mental Health Services
ASCAP has expanded its Wellness Program with a new mental health member benefit in collaboration [...]
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces strategic collaboration with U.K.-based Ventola Projects to transform party room entertainment
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces a strategic collaboration with Ventola Projects Ltd., a United Kingdom-based specialist in LED lighting, immersive technology, audiovisual solutions, and entertainment …
Las Vegas tattoo artist builds business by prioritizing art over price
The longtime Las Vegas tattoo artist says customer service, collaboration and a focus on artistic quality help his downtown shop compete with bargain-priced rivals.
How Ron Nirenberg prepared to become Bexar County Judge
While Ron Nirenberg's job may be different, his approach will be the same. The former mayor will lean on collaboration in his new role.
Dragon's Dogma 2 gets a timed collaboration with beloved anime and manga series Delicious in Dungeon, and it's out right now on PC, PlayStation and Xbox
The Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen collaboration brings in new allies and equipment for a limited time.
Jülich Hosts EVE Language Model for Earth Observation and Earth Science
Nov. 3, 2026 — The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has started a new collaboration with Pi School, an international centre of excellence for AI headquartered in Rome that brings together innovators, thinkers and entrepreneurs. As a result, JSC’s Helmholtz Blablador infrastructure now hosts the EVE-Instruct model, a large language model (LLM) for Earth observation (EO) and […]
Dragon’s Dogma II: Dark Arisen x Delicious in Dungeon collaboration announced
Capcom has announced a collaboration with manga series Delicious in Dungeon for Dragon’s Dogma II: Dark Arisen, which brings Official Pawns and special collaboration outfits inspired by chara…
TreImage Partners with Haaseline Entertainment
Collaboration strengthens brand licensing initiatives, accelerates retail expansion and creates new commercial opportunities for TreImage.
Business Networks Harness Agentic AI to Bolster Collaboration and Operational Resilience Among Trading Partners
Implementing AI in business networks can streamline operations and enhance value with customers and partners. Read to learn more.
Afrika Konnect Las Vegas 2026 to Welcome International Business Delegation November 18
AFRIKA KONNECT & Networking Las Vegas 2026 returns Wednesday, November 18, bringing together African and American business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and economic development stakeholders for an evening of international networking and strategic collaboration. In partnership
NH is destination for space sector
The two-day Space, Technology, Trade and Research expo on Oct. 28-29 in Durham convened innovators, producers, scientists, engineers, investors, bankers, students and representatives of the U.S. Space Force and Department of War. The goal: Increase networking, collaboration and awareness of what’s happening here, including on the campus of UNH, which provides tools, expertise and facilities for product development and testing.
Fayetteville PWC to host Veterans Business Expo Nov. 12
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC) will host a Veterans Business Expo on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at PWC's Main Operations Complex, located at 955 Old Wilmington Road in Fayetteville. The event will provide Veteran-owned businesses with an opportunity to showcase their products and services directly to government entities, public agencies, contractors and resource partners. The expo is designed to encourage networking, strengthen business relationships and connect Veteran entrepreneurs with potential opportunities for growth and collaboration. The Veterans Business Expo reflects PWC's ongoing commitment to supporting local businesses, fostering economic development and creating opportunities for businesses throughout the Fayetteville and Cumberland County community. The event is being promoted in collaboration with the Veterans Business Outreach Center at FSU (VBOC) and the Fayetteville-Cumberland Regional Entrepreneur & Business HUB.
FSU celebrates completion of $137.5 million health research building in Tallahassee
Construction is complete on FSU Health's $137.5 million Health Research and Collaboration building. The university unveiled it during a ribbon cutting Friday.
Where Life Science Scales in Basel
The Basel region is one of the world’s leading life-science clusters. Pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms and research institutions benefit from a unique combination of talent, infrastructure and international collaboration. As the industry continues to grow, the demand for scalable laboratory and office environments within this innovation ecosystem is increasing.
BrainsWay Announces Strategic Collaboration with Mindful Health Solutions
Latest Collaboration Comes Amid Progress in Other Strategic Initiatives, Including Follow-on Investment in Earlier Minority Stake Investment TargetBURLINGTON, Mass. and JERUSALEM, Nov. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BrainsWay Ltd. (NASDAQ & TASE: BWAY) (“BrainsWay” or the “Company”), a global leader in advanced noninvasive neurostimulation treatments for mental health disorders, announced a strategic collaboration with Mindful Health Solutions (“MHS”), an established provider of comprehensive beha
Dead by Daylight Devs Apologize After TheBurntPeanut Stream Stirs Controversy in Its Community
Behaviour Interactive has responded after what appeared to be a Dead by Daylight collaboration with controversial streamer TheBurntPeanut caused backlash in its community.
Strengthening Japan–India partnership for science and innovation
A recent international conference at Hokkaido University brought together researchers from Japan, India, and beyond to explore collaborations that can help tackle challenges in food, health, and materials science.
WLF meet ends with new science body plan
The Shanghai-based World Laureates Foundation has proposed establishing the World Laureates Organization to further strengthen global research collaboration among scientists, with the initiative unveiled at the 2026 World Laureates Forum, which concluded in Shanghai on Sunday.
WLF meet ends with new science body plan
The Shanghai-based World Laureates Foundation has proposed establishing the World Laureates Organization to further strengthen global research collaboration among scientists, with the initiative unveiled at the 2026 World Laureates Forum, which concluded in Shanghai on Sunday.
Global Summit for Eye Health Kicks Off in St. John’s With Calls for Action
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda—The inaugural Global Summit for Eye Health begins today in St. John’s, bringing together heads of state and government, ministers, multilateral and development institutions, donors, industry researchers and eye health leaders with the goal of driving a new wave of global action on eye health. The Summit is hosted by the government of Antigua and Barbuda, in technical collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and supported by global health alliance for eye health the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
MF DOOM's Estate Teams With Sanford Greene for Capsule Collection
The collection, spanning apparel, skateboard decks and trading cards, will be released in collaboration with Collectionzz.
FSU celebrates completion of new $137.5 million health research building in Tallahassee
Construction is complete on FSU Health’s $137.5 million Health Research and Collaboration building. The university unveiled it during a ribbon cutting Friday.
California Science Center and NASA JPL Collaboration to Debut at Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on Nov. 13
The California Science Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are joining forces to showcase six decades of robotic space exploration at the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles. Opening November 13, 2026, the Kent Kresa Space Gallery will feature spacecraft models, a restored Ranger lunar probe, Mars rover exhibits and hands-on activities exploring planetary science, exoplanets and future space missions.
WLF prize laureate: Science takes curiosity and a stubborn streak
At the 2026 World Laureates Forum in Shanghai, structural biologist Wolfgang Baumeister, a 2026 Canada Gairdner International Award winner, spoke to CGTN about how technology, timing and international collaboration help drive scientific breakthroughs.
FSU opens new health facility, names it after Wilton Simpson
FSU Health is celebrating the completion of its Research and Collaboration Building, naming it after Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
A photo tour of the FSU Health Research and Collaboration Building
FSU Health held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Research and Collaboration Building, which will be named after Wilton Simpson, Friday, Oct. 30.
FSU Health opens new research and collaboration building, names it for Florida Ag Commissioner Wilton Simpson
Florida State University cut the ribbon Friday on its new FSU Health Research and Collaboration Building and announced that the facility will be named for
Forensic Science Professor Helps Discover Vulnerability in Technology
What started with an unexpected connection at a national conference grew into a research collaboration examining a critical question in forensic science: How secure is digital DNA evidence?
John Wallace named director of Penn State Regenerative Agriculture Center
John Wallace, associate professor of weed science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been named director of the Penn State Regenerative Agriculture Center to help guide research and collaboration aimed at advancing regenerative farming practices across Pennsylvania.
The Foundation celebrates a decade of building community through sports in Denver
The social sports school that the Real Madrid Foundation operates in Denver (Colorado) in collaboration with Colorado United Soccer Club held its...
Science Begins With Wonder and Sometimes With a Salamander.
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Don & Beth Straus Center at Birch Bay Village. BAR HARBOR—The children had come to see the axolotls, those odd little salamanders with pink frills around their heads and the remarkable ability to grow back what they lose. But also there were stickers. There were crafts. There was the kind of excitement that makes a roomful of kindergarteners forget, for a little while, that sitting still is ever a requirement. And then there were the animals themselves, alive in their clear cases at the MDI Biological Laboratory, where 12 children from Pemetic Elementary School got to meet the creatures they had been learning about in class. “Do you love them?” their teacher, Carol Null, asked. The answer came back in a chorus. “I do!” “I do!” “I do too,” Null said, smiling. “I love them even more now.” That was the thing about a day at the lab. Science was no longer a picture in a book, or a word on a classroom wall. It had a face, a tail, and a set of extraordinary powers. And for a child, sometimes that is where wonder begins. Sometimes learning about science is about stickers. Sometimes it’s about bright pink feathers and getting super excited about that glow in the dark. Sometimes learning about science is joy—pure and simple joy. That’s how it was October 28 at the MDI Bio Lab as Miss Hannah (known in the lab as Dr. Hannah Lust, director of STEM, undergraduate and graduate Training), other scientists, graduate students, and MDI Bio Lab staff, hosted 12 students from Carol Null’s Pemetic Elementary School’s kindergarten class. The 2.5-hour program created by Dr. Lust focused on axolotls, a species of mole salamanders, a superhero in the animal world: a superhero with some scientific-study worthy superpowers. One of those superpowers come from the axolotls’ ability to regenerate body parts, including entire limbs. But also, they’re cute. This fall, before coming to the internationally renowned lab nestled in Salsbury Cove, Null has been integrating axolotls into her class. They’ve been part of the kids’ vocabulary and their storytelling. They’ve been part of science. They’ve been part of the children’s learning about facts vs opinions. The Pemetic Elementary kindergarten students learn about invasive species and the impact on the ecology and one student related it to their dad, who lobsters, and his worries about green craps, an invasive species in Maine. “Are they bigger or smaller than you thought they’d be?” the children are asked after the scientists show them multiple see-through cases of axolotls, lined up on a table that they’re told not to jiggle. “Bigger!” “I think they’re bigger.” “Smaller!” The bio lab opening its doors to the collaborations and to students and families is a norm, but this is the first program of this kind. It’s meant to encourage kindergarten students about axolotls. But when the students come to the bio lab something else happens too—something beyond Null’s child-focused teaching—the students see science—and the regenerating creatures in real life. They do crafts. They speak with them. They meet people who know all about them: scientists and educators who talk to the kids like they’re equals. That’s a superhero power, too. Null speaks about meeting the kids where they’re at in her classroom, letting their interest and hearts lead her in their learning. That requires recognition of interests, of individuality, of empathy. Some would argue that’s a super power, too, but it’s also in those 12 students as they listen to the storybook, encounter those live axolotls, and hear about how axolotls might help advance society’s understanding of human health. As Eddie Seckeler (comparative animal models, CORE facility manager), carefully puts the axolotls on a cart and rolls them away, some of the children stop what they’re doing to watch. “Bye axolotls.” “Bye!” “Bye!” The axolotls are not just images in a book, Hello, I’m an axolotl by Hayley and John Rocco; they are real and cool. MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Dr. Prayag Murawala and Dr. James Godwin who both feature in the Roccos’ book. The kindergarteners get to meet them in real life, off the page, in the world, doing science. They learn from them, laugh with them. “The visit is about more than meeting an unusual animal. By introducing children to scientists working in their own community, the experience helps make science tangible and accessible. Students can see that science is not just something they read about in books or learn about at school. It is something real people do every day by asking questions, making observations and working to understand how the world works,” explains MDI Biological Laboratory Director of Communications Rebecca Woods. While the students make axolotl-related crafts around tables, graduate students and staff help out. Ryan holds up his construction paper setting and axolotl to show Omar Maged, a graduate student. “Do you like it?” Ryan asks, eyes wide, turning from his axolotl to look up at Omar. Omar studies the construction paper for a moment, smiles and says definitively, each word important. “It is beautiful.” Null says that she’s so thankful for all the “amazing” community partners that her school and her students get to interact with as they learn and grow and live, but emphasized how the MDI Bio Lab goes out of its way to create something meaningful, something that allows her young students to build their own agency, to know that they can be impactful in their community, to show them how how things they learn about in text is connected to themselves and their community. Woods explains, “Axolotls have an extraordinary ability to regenerate, or regrow, certain body parts, including limbs. Scientists study these animals to understand how regeneration works and what their biology might teach us about tissue repair and healing in humans.” The children enter the space for “a memorable introduction to a big scientific question,” Woods said. “How can some animals regrow body parts? The encounter encourages children to look closely, wonder about what they see and begin to understand how scientists use observations and experiments to investigate questions.” “For the students, the visit is an opportunity to explore a fascinating animal and meet scientists in their own community,” Woods explains. “For MDI Biological Laboratory, it is a chance to share the excitement of research, nurture curiosity, and help young learners discover that science begins with asking questions.“ At the beginning of the school year, Pemetic kindergarteners didn’t know what the axolotl was—at least not exactly—now they know all about the axolotl’s life cycle. “It’s different than a butterfly,” one student told Mrs. Null. It is. The change and knowledge might seem small**,** but it offers a glimpse of what happens when a subject moves beyond the pages of a book and into a child’s world. The children have been learning about butterflies at the Charlotte Rhoades Park and Butterfly Garden. At both the garden and the MDI Bio Lab, the children see the animals, meet the scientists who study them and at the lab encounter a question that researchers are still working to answer: how can some creatures regenerate body parts, and what might that teach us about healing in humans? They leave with gift bags, paper-plate salamanders, new things to wonder about and a connection between the science they learn in school and the work happening in their own community. The axolotls may be remarkable for their ability to grow back what they have lost. For these young students, the day offers something different: a chance to discover how much there is to ask, observe, and imagine. When Null’s students had time to use chalk and draw whatever they want, in the beginning of the year, they drew rainbows. Now? They’re using that chalk and choosing to draw axolotls instead. About MDI Bio Laboratory For more than 125 years, MDI Bio Lab has been a center for training and research in comparative biology. In the last two decades its biomedical research has focused on aging, regeneration, and environmental toxins. The Laboratory houses 11 research groups staffed by an international team of world-class scientists and graduate students. It also leads a statewide network of colleges, universities and research institutions that collaborate to provide training, research experiences and financial support to help young Mainers play a bigger role in today’s biomedical revolution. Located on Maine’s rugged coast, the Laboratory’s 100+ acre campus houses research facilities, cottages and dorms that house visiting scientists and students. It is also home to MDI Bioscience, a subsidiary working to design innovative techniques to speed the drug discovery process. The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Rick Osann Art. LINKS TO LEARN MORE NIH INBRE MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY Pemetic Elementary School Hello, I’m an Axolotl Photos: Carrie Jones/Bar Harbor Story HELP SUPPORT THE BAR HARBOR STORY When we started The Bar Harbor Story, we didn’t know if anyone would read it. But you showed up. You shared. You sent tips. Now—over 400,000 views every month later—it’s clear: people here care about their community and each other. We’ve kept everything free because news should never be out of reach, but every one of our stories takes time to write, and your support keeps The Bar Harbor Story going. If you value our work, please consider a paid subscription, a founding membership, or a sponsorship. It truly helps us cover one more meeting, tell one more story, shine one more light. Even $5 a month makes a difference. Click here to become a one-time supporter now. Thank you so much for being here. Founding member information can be found here. Have questions about sponsorships? 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How Can Science Better Support Interdisciplinary Researchers?
Academics and industry experts discuss how science can better support interdisciplinary researchers through reforming funding applications, collaboration, and traditional career advancement.
World Conference on Traditional Medicine 2026 delivers landmark outcomes for global health
Expert Committee Meeting members at the World Conference on Traditional Medicine 2026© WHOThe World Conference on Traditional Medicine 2026 concluded in Beijing on 18 October with several key outcomes aimed at strengthening global cooperation for health and well-being. These included the adoption of the Beijing Initiative on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Traditional Medicinal Plant Resources, the promotion of the New-Era Shennong Herbal Project, and the publication of the Report on artificial intelligence empowering global traditional medicine development (2026). The conference also marked the establishment of the Global Alliance for Traditional and Integrative Medicine (GATIM) to foster international scientific collaboration.The biennial conference, held on 17–18 October at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, was co-hosted by the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, the National Health Commission, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the National Medical Products Administration. WHO joined the Conference as co-sponsor, aligning with the country’s Healthy China initiative, which is overseen by President Xi Jinping. The initiative seeks to expand inclusive, high-quality health services, drive innovation in traditional medicine, and reinforce the principle that a healthy population is fundamental to national prosperity and strength. H.E. Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, addressed the opening ceremony, emphasizing the critical role of traditional medicine as a unique force in safeguarding human health and advancing civilization. "Traditional medicine has followed a distinctive path of development through long-term practice," Li stated. He called on the international community to strengthen cooperation, make better use of global traditional medicine resources, and jointly address challenges to human health. Premier Li also highlighted the necessity of harnessing science and technology to accelerate the innovative development of traditional medicine. He announced that China would promote the digital and intelligent transformation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and encourage active participation from both Chinese and foreign research institutions and enterprises. Furthermore, he expressed China's willingness to expand pilot programs to open up the medical service sector and work with all parties to advance the development of Belt and Road medicinal resources conservation centre.Addressing the Conference participants via a video message, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, said, "This is not a choice between tradition and science. It is about bringing knowledge systems together through research, innovation, regulation and quality assurance. We need stronger evidence on what works, for whom, and under what conditions."Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, addressed the opening session, underscoring the importance of integrating traditional medicine into mainstream health systems in line with the call of the WHO Global Strategy on Traditional Medicine 2025–2034. In the closing session, Dr Shyama Kuruvilla, Director of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre, expressed appreciation for the achievements of the conference, where different world views and scientific and programmatic advances were exchanged with a clear focus on practical action to advance traditional medicine for the health and well-being of people and the planet.The conference, held under the theme Technology Empowerment and Integrated Development: Advancing Traditional Medicine for All, featured a government forum, ministerial round table and eight parallel forums to advance all four objectives of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034: strengthening evidence, ensuring safety through regulation, integrating traditional, complementary and integrative medicine into health systems, and realizing its value through action across sectors.Over the two-day event, nearly 2000 participants, experts and scholars from 103 countries and areas, including 16 ministerial-level health officials, delivered over 150 high-level speeches and reports. Discussions covered key areas such as the integration of traditional medicine into international health systems, evidence-based development, drug regulation and the application of artificial intelligence in traditional medicine.
DataFi Donation Ceremony at the Ministry of Health-Remarks by ADCM Steve Bremner
DataFi Donation Ceremony at the Ministry of Health Remarks by Acting Deputy Chief of Mission a.i. Steve Bremner (…) I’m pleased to join the Ministry of Public Health and our implementer, Palladium, today to hand over IT equipment including 80 laptops, 300 tablets, and Monitoring and Evaluation reporting tools for CSBII. Good health decisions start with good data. When a health worker in a remote commune notices unusual fever cases, that information must reach district and national teams fast. Every hour counts. Fast, reliable data helps the Ministry detect an outbreak early, send teams where they’re needed, and stop a disease before it spreads. These laptops and tablets will help do exactly that. They’ll strengthen Madagascar’s health information system and disease surveillance so health workers can collect, report, and use data faster and more accurately. This support reflects the America First Global Health Strategy. Under this strategy, the United States works directly with partner governments based on country ownership, shared investment, and accountability for results. Together, we’re strengthening Madagascar’s ability to detect and respond to outbreaks quickly though the MOU signed in December 2025. This work protects Malagasy families and the American people. Today also marks a transition. The Data.FI project is ending, but the work will continue. Palladium will continue to carry these same activities forward through a new project, AFGHS Palladium, under the State Department’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy. The new project will put an even stronger focus on results. Mister SG, your ministry’s close collaboration with Data.FI made today possible. I hope you will bring the same commitment to this new project. Together, we can deliver even greater results and speed up the transfer of skills to Ministry teams. Our shared goal is to build the ministry’s capacity to lead, manage, and sustain these systems on its own. That is Madagascar’s path to self-reliance. Equipment alone doesn’t stop an outbreak. People do. To the health workers and data managers who will use these tools: thank you for your dedication. To the Ministry: we count on you to put these devices to work quickly, keep them in good condition, and protect the data they hold. That’s how this investment will deliver results for years to come. The United States stands with the Government of Madagascar. We commend the Ministry of Public Health for its leadership. We look forward to continuing our collaboration through AFGHS Palladium and beyond. Thank you. Misaotra betsaka.
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A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
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In the AI Investment Brief today: CapEx updates and lease commitment breakdowns Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark recently said in a speech at the IMF that the singularity has begun: For many years, researchers and science fiction authors have forecast a future in which AI systems drastically increase the pace of overall scientific and technical progress, making things move so quickly that it is hard for humans to keep up. They call this the singularity. I believe that this year we have gained convincing evidence that it has now begun. This follows Anthropic’s claim that in August, 26% of its AI R&D was led by Claude, with a human supervising its work. In October, OpenAI posted 719 math manuscripts1 made by its internal model. Math and coding are two fields where a research loop can close without leaving the desk. But can the loop close in the rest of science? Subscribe The loop is real The idea is not new. Mathematician Irving John Good, who had worked with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, argued that a machine smarter than us “could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.” The Gödel machine, a self-improving computer that can rewrite its own code better than its prior, was first proposed in 2003. In 2025, researchers at Sakana AI and the University of British Columbia set out to show that this was possible. Their agents iteratively improved their own code through a feedback loop, resulting in gains of 30 pp on SWE-bench and more than 15 pp on Polyglot, testing coding skills beyond Python. The idea has since been tested in other labs. A Gemini-powered agent called AlphaEvolve found a faster matrix multiplication kernel used for training Gemini, speeding up the kernel by 23% and cutting Gemini’s training time by 1%. In China, MiniMax reported that its M2.7 model worked on improving its own agent’s harness, skills, sampling and memory. Over 100 rounds of rewriting led to a 30% gain, per its internal evaluations. In each case, what was being rewritten was not the model itself but everything around it. Is it better than human work? In September this year, in what seemed like a milestone, an AI-built agent proved as good at improving other AI agents as a human-built one. It did that in what appeared to be half the steps. But the result was inconclusive: the differences between runs were greater than the difference between the AI- and human-built agent results. Nonetheless, this is increasing the chatter around recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI. Google’s Sundar Pichai said that “you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development.” Sakana AI published a paper on RSI through multi-agent collaboration, finding that after two cycles its system scored 1.2–1.6x better per output token than the base model across four research benchmarks. Ramez Naam challenges that view. He splits AI self-improvement into five overlapping types. The first four describe how autonomous the AI is; so far, only types 1 and 2 have been observed. The fifth type describes accelerating returns, and he notes that greater autonomy doesn’t guarantee a takeoff scenario. Instead, each round of self-improvement would need to deliver at least as much as the last. The results from Sakana, AlphaEvolve and MiniMax above might look like type 3 or type 4 autonomy. But in each case, the AI wasn’t updating its own weights directly, only the ancillary parts — the harness, the memory. And where Claude leads its own R&D, for now a human still supervises.
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