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Claudia Felser: Exploring new frontiers in materials science
At the intersection of chemistry and physics, Claudia Felser explores topological materials, chirality and new routes to energy conversion.
US SECTORS CALL: Technology & Health Care
Momentum returned to the AI trade early last week. Anthropic’s IPO filing on Monday revealed a far more profitable business than investors had expected, and the AI trade rallied. SK Hynix added to it with blockbuster results overnight Tuesday. Then the trade unraveled. Alphabet’s earnings disappointed on Wednesday,
How a UTI and ‘House of the Dragon’ star saved Sharon Horgan’s ‘Youth’ ending
Sharon Horgan talks her ‘Youth’ ending: The UTI that saved the finale storyline, the ‘Game of Thrones’ stars on and off screen, and more.
Boy George Defies Backlash Over Israel Concerts
Boy George Defies Backlash Over Israel Concerts
Andrew Shue marries Marilee Fiebig, weeks after their exes Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes tied the knot
Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig tied the knot in a ‘low-key ceremony’ at their 92-acre New Jersey estate on Sunday, weeks after their respective exes, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, got married in Arkansas.
'Perfect Storm' Could Give Dems Kansas Senate Seat
'Perfect Storm' Could Give Dems Kansas Senate Seat
‘Bachelor’ alum and ‘DWTS’ winner Melissa Rycroft arrested on suspicion of DWI, her second in a year
‘The Bachelor’ alum and former ‘DWTS’ winner Melissa Rycroft has been arrested on suspicion of DWI, her second in a year, after avoiding jail time for pleading guilty to the 2025 charge this past August.
Taika Waititi slams bad reviews of ‘Klara and the Sun’ as ‘irrelevant’ and ‘out of touch’
Taika Waititi is taking aim at critics after ‘Klara and the Sun’ arrived to poor reviews and bleak box office numbers: ‘Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete.’
Elsie Hewitt shares sweet photo with ex Pete Davidson and their daughter on Halloween
Elsie Hewitt shared a sweet Halloween photo of herself with ex Pete Davidson and their daughter, Scottie, six months after their breakup and her claim she was ‘doing it on my own.’
Robert Downey Jr. and Pedro Pascal switch places in the MCU for Halloween: ‘Costume swap!’
Marvel stars Robert Downey Jr. and Pedro Pascal decided to try walking a mile in each other’s shoes for Halloween.
Charles Lee Admits Hornets Can’t Guard Tyrese Maxey
Charles Lee owns the Hornets' loss to the 76ers. The coach admits his team failed to stop Maxey's dynamic scoring in a tight game.
Jessica Biel wants to ‘modernize’ ‘7th Heaven’ for reboot: ‘We have less limitations now’
Jessica Biel says the ‘7th Heaven’ reboot will not ‘hold back’ from tackling difficult teen issues.
Fetterman Blasts El-Sayed Over Dispute With Stevens
Fetterman Blasts El-Sayed Over Dispute With Stevens
Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods' GOT Costumes
HBO Max reveals how elaborate prosthetics and special-effects makeup transformed the newlyweds into the Night King and a White Walker.
Savannah Guthrie makes devastating plea to public 9 months after mom’s disappearance: ‘Please help us’
Savannah Guthrie shared a heartbreaking piece of art from her young daughter that struck an emotional chord 9 months after her mother Nancy’s disappearance.
‘Heat’ director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself at L.A. gun range
‘Heat 2’ director Michael Mann has been hospitalized after shooting himself in the leg at an L.A. gun range.
Christopher Lloyd says he and Michael J. Fox didn’t become friends until after ‘Back to the Future’ films
Christopher Lloyd shared that he and Michael J. Fox’s friendship took a while to grow as they didn’t become close until after the ‘Back to the Future’ films.
Apple to eliminate non-touch MacBooks Pros other than core 14-inch model
When Apple launched the new touch-enabled MacBook Pros, the M5 Pro and M5 Max models stuck around. A new report says to not expect that to last.
Michigan State Basketball: Top Three Bets for Opening Night
Tom Izzo’s squad kicks off the season against Quinnipiac. Maximize your opening night value by targeting team totals and alternate spreads as the Spartans find their offensive rhythm.
‘Boy Meets World’ alum Rider Strong stopped Letterboxd movie ratings because it was affecting career
‘Boy Meets World’ alum Rider Strong revealed that he stopped rating movies on his Letterboxd account because it was affecting his film career.
Michael Douglas says Catherine Zeta-Jones didn’t have ‘veto power’ over memoir
Michael Douglas’ wife Catherine Zeta-Jones did not weigh in on the content in his ‘One Helluva Ride’ memoir, which was published earlier this month.
Audiobooks vs. Reading: Which is Better for Your Brain?
Experts break down whether listening to audiobooks or reading a print book is better for your brain health as you age.
5 Fruits with More Gut-Health Benefits Than Kale
Veggies like kale don’t own the market on gut health. These five fruits may do just as much (or more) for your digestion.
‘The Gilded Age’ Season 4 Release Schedule: How Many Episodes Will There Be?
Season 4 of ‘The Gilded Age’ will premiere on Nov. 1. Here’s everything to know about ‘The Gilded Age’ season 4 release schedule, including when new episodes come out.
The 26 best cozy fall movies to watch in November
From the autumnal romance of ‘Moonstruck’ to the cozy comforts of ‘Little Women’ these fall movies perfectly capture the spirit of the season.
What Happens to Your Blood Pressure When You Drink Coffee Before Water in the Morning
Drinking coffee and skipping water in the morning may increase the risk of dehydration, a potential risk factor for increased blood pressure.
Opinion: It’s been decades since Kansas made a difference in national politics. This time it means the world.
Opinion from Max McCoy: This year's U.S. Senate race in Kansas is a referendum on what may be the most corrupt administration in American history — and a repudiation of the phalanx of legislative quislings that keeps it in power.
‘Relationship business:’ RE/MAX celebrates 40 years in Dubuque area
As he tells it, Greg Adams became a real estate agent more than four decades ago largely due to a lack of other employment opportunities.
Mariah Carey defrosts for this year’s ‘It’s time’ Christmas video
“All I Want For Christmas is You” singer Mariah Carey continued her tradition of kicking off the holiday season with a new video that features one of her ’90s deep cuts.
‘SNL’ recap: ‘Obsession’ star Inde Navarrette hosts Halloween episode
‘Obsession’ star Inde Navarrette hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the first time on Halloween, with musical guest Gracie Abrams. Read EW’s recap.
BLSAS (CO-OP) Varsity Football @ General Brown
The Bishop Ludden/Syracuse Academy of Science varsity football team has an away playoff game @ General Brown (Dexter, NY) today @ 7p.
‘Mormon Wives’ star takes down family Halloween costume post referencing day of JFK’s assassination following backlash
McCall DaPron and her family dressed up as the Kennedys circa the day of JFK’s assassination for Halloween, sparking backlash.
Bayern Munich’s Max Eberl laments missed chances vs. Borussia Dortmund
FC Bayern could not make good on its opportunities vs. BVB.
‘Nobody Wants This’ star hits back at ‘tensions’ on set following Adam Brody comments
‘Nobody Wants This’ star Tovah Feldshuh denied any rising tensions between her and her onscreen son Adam Brody in a Threads post on Saturday.
Michael Douglas didn’t think Glenn Close was ‘right’ for ‘Fatal Attraction’
Michael Douglas reunited with his ‘Fatal Attraction’ costar Glenn Close on the Oct. 30 episode of ‘The Graham Norton Show.’
Jessica Lange says her career is ‘coming to an end’
Oscar-winner Jessica Lange discussed her career and potential retirement following her appearance on the most recent season of ‘American Horror Story.’
Mark-Paul Gosselaar says late ‘Saved by the Bell’ costar Dennis Haskins helped cast feel ‘safe’ on set
Mark-Paul Gosselaar tells ‘EW’ that late ‘Saved by the Bell’ costar Dennis Haskins helped the young cast feel ‘safe’ on the set of their ’90s sitcom, but that he stopped responding to their outreach in his final years.
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR looks awesome, but I’m not rushing to upgrade
After five years, Apple released its first major MacBook Pro overhaul since the M1 Pro/M1 Max models, and well… it...
I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.
Nicolas Cage says he almost ‘really lost it’ while filming ‘Face/Off’ scene
Nicolas Cage recalls how he got deep into the mind of his ‘Face/Off’ character and almost ‘really lost it’ during this one particular scene.
New York Giants Get New Maxx Crosby Trade Report
The New York Giants enter their bye week at 4-2-1 as leaders of the NFC East. Despite losing their starting quarterback Jaxson Dart and star pass rusher Brian Burns to season-ending injuries, the Giants have rallied and positioned themselves to be buyers at the trade deadline.While the expectation is that New York will aim for […] The post New York Giants Get New Maxx Crosby Trade Report appeared first on HEAVY.
Alexander Skarsgård talks steamy ‘Wicker’ scenes with Olivia Colman: ‘Sex was great’
Alexander Skarsgård opens up about the steamy sex scenes he and leading lady Olivia Colman did for their new movie ‘Wicker.’
Christopher Lloyd recalls John Belushi ‘flying backwards’ into a piano in ‘Goin’ South’
Christopher Lloyd recounted his experience watching ‘Saturday Night Live’ alum John Belushi put his all into physical stunts during the making of ‘Goin’ South’ in 1978.
Republicans pour millions into once-safe House seat in bid to save Max Miller
In the closing days of the race, Rep. Max Miller is making the case to voters that divorce is messy and the controversies that surrounded him this summer are behind him.
Vacant Stockton apartment building burns, sparking frustration from nearby business owner
Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson receive grid penalties for 'unacceptable' practice collision at Mexico City Grand Prix
Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson have both been handed a one-place grid penalty for their collision in second practice at the Mexico City Grand Prix; watch qualifying in Mexico at 9pm on Saturday and the race at 8pm on Sunday
Observations after Sixers beat Knicks again, move to 5-1
The Sixers improved to 5-1 with their second early-season win over the Knicks.
Nelly says Taylor Swift paid him $50K in a McDonald’s bag to perform at her concert
Nelly says Taylor Swift once paid him a fat load of cash for a brief guest appearance at a concert: ‘I would’ve did it for free.’
Knicks-76ers Kalshi Promo Code NYPMAX55 Misses The Real Story
A $55 bonus for Knicks fans is a distraction. The real drama involves Mikal Bridges' career slump and Jalen Brunson's 38-point explosion against the Bulls.
See all the winners at the 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards
From the first potential Daytime Emmys for ‘Beyond the Gates’ to major competition in the talk show and culinary series categories, here are all the winners at the 2026 Daytime Emmys.
Video: How Healthy Is Anthropic’s Business?
This week on “Hard Fork,” Max Read, guest host, and Erin Griffith, a tech reporter for The New York Times, discuss how Anthropic’s upcoming I.P.O. is a rare chance to see the financials of a major A.I. company.
2026 Daytime Emmy Awards Winners List (Live Updates)
The 2026 Daytime Emmy Awards are airing live on Friday, Oct. 30, honoring the best in soap operas, daytime talk shows and more. See the complete list of nominees and winners as they’re announced during the ceremony.
‘Criminal Minds’ to end again — this time with season 20
Deja vu? ‘Criminal Minds’ is set to conclude again… this time in 2027, with its 20th season.
Martin Scorsese blames Seth Rogen for his ‘Cleopatra’ movie being ‘ruined’: ‘It was gonna be really wild’
Martin Scorsese said that his ‘Cleopatra’ movie was moving forward until a Seth Rogen project ‘blew up’ a studio: ‘It was gonna be really wild.’
‘Gossip Girl’ star Kelly Rutherford makes rare red carpet appearance with 20-year-old son
‘Gossip Girl’ star Kelly Rutherford attended the London ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ premiere alongside her 20-year-old son, Hermès, years after fighting her ex-husband for custody.
‘The Traitors: New Blood’ star Tomica Adams reacts to being target of Victor’s fruit obsession
‘The Traitors: New Blood’ star Tomica Adams reacts to being target of Victor’s fruit obsession: ‘And it wasn’t the right piece of fruit!’
Elizabeth Holmes photographer reacts to ‘You Can See Everything’ after taking famous photo
Elizabeth Holmes complains about the photo of her holding up a vial in the new doc ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s what the photographer says.
Paul Bettany blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye while ‘wildly overacting’ on ‘VisionQuest’
Paul Bettany strained so hard while playing Vision in ‘VisionQuest’ that he ‘blew about 10 blood vessels’ in his eye: ‘I was just wildly overacting.’
Rethinking Modern Workspace Lighting: The Design and Science Behind BenQ ScreenBar
JC Pan, Head of the Digital Lifestyle Product Business Unit at BenQ Corporation, unpacks how the brand has engineered precision optical lighting tailored for high-end digital workspaces.
‘The View’ dresses child as Trump’s algae-infested Lincoln Memorial pool for Halloween
‘The View’ dressed children for Halloween as Donald Trump’s algae-infested Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and the bird Kelly Clarkson wanted to buy at a Brooklyn store.
Pokémon GO Max Monday Schedule (November 2026)
November’s Max Mondays give you more chances to battle and catch Dynamax Pokémon at Power Spots. Check the schedule below for each featured Pokémon and date, including changes during this month’s special events. Looking for more coverage? Check out our Current Raid Bosses, Current Season’s Field Research Tasks and Current Egg Chart. Here is the […]
Patrick Stewart’s son Daniel pays tribute with sweet throwback photo after actor’s death
Despite Patrick Stewart previously saying he was estranged from his children, the late actor’s son shared an adorable photo of them together.
Jensen Ackles and Justin Hartley reunite for mysterious new mission in ‘Tracker’ clip (exclusive)
Jensen Ackles will make his much-anticipated return as Russell Shaw and team up with Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw in the Nov. 1 episode of ‘Tracker.’
Maximum Entertainment Sellers Seek Halt To Restrictions
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APEC Business Travel Card Validity Extended
To facilitate business travel within the Asia-Pacific region, China has extended the maximum permitted stay for APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) holders in China from 60 days to 90 days, effective November 1, 2026. The ABTC provides significant advantages for business travelers from participating Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies. With the ABTC, cardholders can travel freely between member countries without the need to obtain individual business visas for each trip, which greatly reduces the time, cost and administrative burden associated with frequent cross-border travel. Additionally, they benefit from expedited immigration processing, including access to special lanes at airports, although the level of convenience and border clearance infrastructure may differ depending on the country. The card is typically valid for five years, minimizing the need for frequent visa renewals. Furthermore, business travelers are vetted and pre-approved before the card is issued, ensuring smoother entry procedures upon arrival.
Bre Tiesi explains abrupt ‘Special Forces’ exit: ‘My biggest thing was safety’
Bre Tiesi opens up to EW about her decision to walk away from ‘Special Forces’ early, with Oliver Hudson following right behind her.
‘Golden Bachelor’ subtly addresses breakup with Peg Munson
‘Golden Bachelor’ star Mel Owens subtly addressed his breakup with Peg Munson after he posted a gym selfie on Instagram.
India’s most expensive movie ever opens in Bay Area for Diwali
The $420 million “Ramayana: Rise of a Legend,” based on an epic poem nearly as old as “The Odyssey,” opens in English and Hindi, IMAX and 3D.
Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era
I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.
Clemson Basketball Season Preview: Getting to Know This Year’s Tigers
It has been a while since I was this excited for a Clemson basketball season. It’s not that I expect this team to be significantly better than the last few, I just trust the staff to maximize their resources and deliver the best possible product for us to enjoy. After two years of completely unenjoyable […]
These Airlines Have the Best Business Class Seats, According to Experts—With Suites, Lie-flat Beds, and Gourmet Dining
Travel experts reveal the best business class seats on seven airlines, from private suites to lie-flat beds, plus what to check before booking your next flight.
Ohio State names Aravind Chandrasekaran dean of Fisher College of Business
Ohio State has named Aravind Chandrasekaran dean of the Max M. Fisher College of Business, pending Board of Trustees approval, according to a university release. Chandrasekaran, who goes by AC, has led the college as interim dean since June 2025, according to the release. The appointment removes that interim title. “AC has demonstrated a deep […]
Political ad spending hits record levels as voters face a flood of campaign mailers
Campaigns are spending billions of dollars to get their messages in front of voters. But for some, the constant stream of advertising is becoming more of a nuisance than an influence.
‘A Few Good Men’ Broadway review: Tom Blyth turns up the charisma in Tom Cruise’s famous role
Tom Blyth takes on one of Tom Cruise’s most famous film roles in the Broadway revival of Aaron Sorkin’s ‘A Few Good Men’ alongside Bradley Whitford and Krysta Rodriguez. Read EW’s review.
‘Star Wars’ actor Alden Ehrenreich recalls disastrous ‘Spider-Man’ audition: ‘Woefully unprepared’
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ actor Alden Ehrenreich said he was ‘woefully unprepared’ when he auditioned to play Spider-Man: ‘If I did have a chance for that, then I think I blew that up.’
Eight Blue Jays Become Free Agents
The Jays have eight players who declared free agency today: Shane Bieber, Patrick Corbin, Yimi Garcia, Max Scherzer, Paul Sewald, George Springer, Jameson Taillon, and Luis Urias. Only six teams have more free agents: Other old friends becoming free agents: Chris Bassitt, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Randal Grichuk,Trevor Richards, Jordan Romano, Jacob Waguespack, Daulton Varsho, Luke Maile, […]
Patrick Stewart delivered his own eulogy in a raunchy stand-up routine 11 years before his death
Patrick Stewart jokingly penned his own eulogy for a raunchy stand-up routine 11 years before his death at 86.
Watch Collin Gosselin channel anger toward estranged mom Kate in brutal ‘Special Forces’ challenge
Collin Gosselin took out all his aggression on a ‘Special Forces’ sergeant when asked to channel anger toward his estranged mom, Kate Gosselin, for an intense challenge.
Judge rules on Olivier Martinez’s restraining order against Halle Berry after abuse claims
A Los Angeles judge has ruled on Olivier Martinez’s temporary restraining order against Halle Berry in the wake of abuse claims regarding their 13-year-old son, Maceo.
‘Today’ host Jenna Bush Hager makes Sheinelle Jones hold a cat for the first time: ‘Wait, what do I do?’
Sheinelle Jones held a cat for the very first time on Thursday’s episode of the ‘Today’ show, thanks to Jenna Bush Hager and her cat, Maisie.
Max Dowman Red Card Appeal Is Rejected
Arsenal's appeal against Max Dowman's red card against Fleetwood Town during the week has been rejected meaning the teenager will miss the next three Premier League games due to suspension.
‘Survivor 51’ star Ori Jean-Charles reveals off-island date with Jelly
‘Survivor 51’ star Ori Jean-Charles reveals off-island date with Jelly: ‘Jelly had a little crush on me. I had a little crush on Jelly.’
‘Dexter’ stars John Lithgow and Julie Benz revisit Rita’s shocking death: ‘The audience is never going to forgive you’
With EW celebrating 20 years of ‘Dexter,’ John Lithgow and Julie Benz are reflecting on Trinity’s game-changing kill in the season 4 finale.
‘Bosch: Start of Watch’ star Cameron Monaghan previews gritty ’90s-set prequel
Harry Bosch is returning to the screen in the prequel ‘Bosch: Start of Watch.’ Get an exclusive first look with star Cameron Monaghan and showrunner Tom Bernardo — and find out the premiere date.
Cynthia Erivo blasts scrutiny over close friendship with ‘Wicked’ costar Ariana Grande
Cynthia Erivo slammed intense scrutiny over her close friendship with ‘Wicked’ costar Ariana Grande: ‘There were many people who had become psychologists from their couches.’
Physicians and health systems must align on AI to avoid repeating EHR mistakes
Early wins with ambient AI scribes, shared control over clinical decision support tools and incremental pilots can build the trust needed for a decades-long transformation.
What to stream in November 2026: ‘The Altruists,’ ‘Blade Runner 2099’
Here's what's coming to Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, HBO Max, Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+ and other streaming services in November.
Jeff Probst says ‘Survivor 51’ is a season of ‘formidable women’
Jeff Probst says ‘Survivor 51’ is a season of ‘formidable women,’ and he’s packing stats to prove it.
Fresher for longer: The science extending the shelf life of food
Extending food’s shelf life is one of the biggest challenges researchers face as they think about how to maximize what is grown in the United States. In this video, meet the University of Georgia researchers studying how fruits and vegetables grown in Georgia and the region can stay fresher, safer, and tastier from farm to
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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The US National Institutes of Health reopened its center and program-project machinery in force. NIGMS is funding Collaborative Program Grants for interdisciplinary teams, NIAID opened both its Immune Tolerance Network and a next-generation R&D call, the NCI runs its Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs program, the National Library of Medicine is funding institutional training in biomedical AI and data science, and NIH reopened its Centers for AIDS Research. The tell: these pay for standing centers and multi-year consortia at institutions with an existing funded research base, not one-off projects, so the fit is an established US research institution, not a single investigator. Disease-specific foundations are again funding the researcher, not just the research. The Parkinson’s Foundation opened its Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award and the National Ataxia Foundation its Research Seed Money Grant. The tell, the same one we flagged last cycle, is a named early-career or seed award that builds a pipeline of scientists committed to one condition, so what wins is a researcher willing to specialize. The post-USAID global-health money is routing through a State Department program statement and multilateral innovation funds. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opened its Advancing Global Health Annual Program Statement, Grand Challenges Canada opened Nexa Lighthouse for climate and health innovation in Asia and the Pacific at USD $250,000 to $2,000,000, and CEPI opened a rolling call on vaccine-manufacturing analytics. The tell: the largest health money this cycle sits in a standing program statement and in staged innovation vehicles, not in a single bilateral grant. Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$35.4M across discrete grants. (Separately, large national-formula envelopes not counted in this total: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).) This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. New opportunities: Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award, Parkinson’s Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!* The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award to fund clinicians rethinking how people with Parkinson’s disease receive care. The Foundation is using pilot funding to move promising ideas into testable projects, backing work across four lanes: strengthening community clinician capability, redesigning care models, building patient-centered technologies, and defining the minimum clinical datasets that make better standards possible. It wants hypothesis-driven, clinically grounded projects that can generate evidence strong enough to attract further funding. By opening the door to clinicians at every career stage and strongly preferring projects that involve people with Parkinson’s in their design, the Foundation signals that it values practical, patient-shaped innovation over prestige. The strongest fits are US-licensed clinicians with a focus on Parkinson’s and an institutional home for applied care research. Geographies: united states. Who can apply: Clinicians of all career stages, from fellows to established faculty, who are licensed to care for patients in the United States and have a significant focus on Parkinson’s disease. Physicians must have completed a neurology residency (or justify how their training pathway benefits people with PD); allied health professionals must hold an advanced degree, typically a PhD. Fellows, those in mentored positions, and those within two years of starting an independent position require a mentor and a mentor support letter. The sponsoring institution’s grants office is the authorized recipient and funds are disbursed to the institution. Funding amount: Maximum of $200,000 over two years; up to three awards. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Design and Deliver the Next EIT Health Bootcamps, EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its call for consortia to design and deliver the next generation of its health start-up bootcamps, funding the curriculum, masterclasses, mentoring, and investor engagement that turn early health ventures into fundable companies. The organization is using these learning paths to strengthen Europe’s health innovation pipeline across digital health evidence, deep tech and AI commercialization, cross-border investment, and patient access. What EIT Health wants to back is not a single course but durable delivery capacity built by partners who span industry, education, and research. Requiring multi-country consortia and a revenue-sharing stake in the programs signals that EIT Health expects these bootcamps to outlast the grant. The strongest fits are established training providers, universities, and industry partners with proven reach into health entrepreneurs. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: Consortia only (individuals cannot apply), comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of five independent legal entities. Partners must cover at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (industry, education, research), including at least one industry organisation, and at least two entities must be legally established in different Horizon Europe countries. Funding amount: Foundational Learning Path: up to EUR €112,000; Thematic Learning Paths: up to EUR €124,500 per path (up to four thematic projects); up to EUR €610,000 total EIT Health funding available under the call. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its Technology Transfer Offices and Entrepreneurship Support Call to fund consortia that will deliver the Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture program for healthcare researchers. EIT Health is using the grant to build local capacity for turning laboratory science into incorporated start-ups, paying experienced technology transfer offices and entrepreneurship support providers to run masterclasses, structured mentoring, and a closing Pitch Day across two cohorts. It wants to back organizations that can walk researchers from discovery to company formation, not just teach theory. Requiring two transfer offices plus one venture-building provider signals that EIT Health values proven commercialization experience alongside academic reach. The strongest fits are European research-commercialization teams with a track record of moving health innovations toward investable ventures. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: A consortium of two Technology Transfer Offices (representing higher education institutions or research organisations) and one Entrepreneurship Support Provider with demonstrated experience in venture building and start-up support. Applicants may apply for more than one learning path where they can demonstrate the required expertise and capacity for each. Funding amount: Up to EUR €77,000 in 2027 and up to EUR €77,000 in 2028 (up to EUR €154,000 total per consortium over two years). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. EIT Health RIS Country Representatives Call (2027-2028), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is seeking organizations to serve as Country Representatives across eleven Regional Innovation Scheme countries in central and eastern Europe for the 2027 to 2028 period. The money funds a national anchor in each country, an organization that maps the local health innovation ecosystem, connects startups and researchers to EIT Health programs, and builds the stakeholder relationships that let health ventures grow. EIT Health is backing local capacity rather than individual projects, which is why it accepts both single organizations and national consortia that span education, research, and industry. The requirement for co-financing signals that it wants representatives already embedded in their national systems. The strongest fits are established ecosystem builders with deep ties to health innovation stakeholders in one eligible country. Geographies: Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Malta; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey. Who can apply: Registered legal entities established in one of the eligible EIT RIS countries. Single organisations or national consortia may apply. Consortia must include at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (education, research and industry), and all consortium partners must be established in the same eligible country. Suitable applicants have demonstrated experience in healthcare innovation ecosystem development, innovation support and entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, technology transfer, research and higher education, business support, and stakeholder engagement, with strong links to national innovation stakeholders. Funding amount: Up to EUR €182,000 per Country Representative (maximum funding per project); total call budget up to EUR €1,274,500; EIT Health funds up to 60% of total eligible project costs. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines, Treatment Action Group (TAG). *New!* *Closing soon!* Treatment Action Group, with funding from Wellcome, is opening its Architects of Trust call to help communities prepare for the new tuberculosis vaccines now moving through late-stage trials. The money backs civil society and community-based organizations to raise awareness, surface local questions and concerns, and press policymakers toward equitable national rollout. By pairing each grantee with an advocacy mentor and running a strategy workshop alongside the Global TB Vaccine Forum, Treatment Action Group is building a durable advocacy bench rather than funding one-off outreach. The two-stage design, starting with a short expression of interest, signals that fit and community rootedness matter more than polished proposals. The strongest fits are locally trusted groups with real TB, immunization, or health advocacy experience and a committed project lead. Geographies: Brazil; Ethiopia; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Tanzania; Vietnam; Zambia. Who can apply: National, subnational, or regional civil society organizations (CSOs) or community-based organizations based in one of the 14 eligible countries or in Eastern Europe/Central Asia regional networks, with experience in TB, immunization, or other health advocacy and in community engagement or policy advocacy; well integrated into stakeholder networks with membership or affiliation to other CSO or community networks; naming a dedicated project lead (’architect of trust’) who can attend the April 2027 Zaragoza forum in person; and holding (or committing to adopt) organizational policies on safeguarding (bullying, harassment, abuse, and harm), equity, diversity and inclusion, and legal compliance, research practice and governance. Funding amount: Grants of up to US$45,000 will be awarded to 8 CSO partners across 14 high-TB-burden countries plus regional networks in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; each grant funds 12 months of work. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Governance; Policy & Advocacy. Deadline: November 4, 2026. Learn more and apply here.
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