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Scientists Finally Figured Out How Octopuses Squeeze Through Tiny Holes. And They Have the Footage to Prove It
Scientists filmed the step-by-step moves behind an octopus's seemingly impossible escape.
Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah slams health speculation after alleged leak
Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah Willis is defending his privacy amid ongoing scrutiny of his battle with dementia.
Octopuses Can Squeeze Through Tiny Gaps — and Scientists Now Know How They Do It
Discover the tactics octopuses use to slip through holes smaller than their heads.
Scientists discover new way to control magnetic waves for future quantum technologies
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have discovered a way to control the handedness of magnons, tiny magnetic waves that can carry information through materials. ...
‘We weren’t aware’: Mitchell Starc stands by his version of Sandpapergate despite David Warner backing Usman Khawaja
Mitchell Starc has once again addressed the controversy surrounding the 2018 ball-tampering incident, reaffirming his stance since 2021. Meanwhile, David Warner has backed Usman Khawaja's assertions, labeling them as the truth. He expressed his disappointment over the lack of in-depth scrutiny during Cricket Australia's initial probe. Starc denied any involvement or knowledge of the tampering, insisting that the bowlers were kept in the dark about the matter.
Thousands of voters in Mississippi Senate race are trying to make their ballots count after state’s voter roll changes
In a Senate race that is still too close to call, Mississippi state election officials are facing intense scrutiny over their methods for maintaining voter rolls after thousands of voters cast provisional ballots because they were not included in precinct poll books or did not have appropriate photo identification.
The fastest levitated spinning magnet ever made might help physicists search for dark matter
Tiny levitated magnets are able to avoid contact friction, making them useful for detecting extremely weak forces and magnetic fields and acting as ultralow-noise quantum sensors and precision measurement ...
LG Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Smart TV Spying Allegations – And Other Brands Could Be Next
Smart TV opt-out settings may not stop data collection, with Samsung and Vizio flagged in a Northeastern University study for continued ACR traffic after disabling.
Russell Brand conviction renews scrutiny of sexual misconduct in UK entertainment industry
Floyd Brenz, Philippine Canadian Inquirer November 09, 2026 The conviction of British comedian and actor Russell Brand has reignited calls for accountability across the United Kingdom’s entertainment industry, with public […]
Taiwanese-American billionaire and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang faces probe over affair with suspected Chinese spy amid major AI projects in Egypt and Morocco
US chip giant Nvidia faces fresh scrutiny after its board launched an independent investigation into reports that chief executive Jensen Huang was targeted by a suspected Chinese espionage operation, raising questions about corporate security and the companys international business interests
Todd Blanche defends former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles
The attorney general says an accusation that Wiles thwarted a MAHA initiative to protect sugar industry contributions isn’t cause for DOJ scrutiny.
I was laid off and couldn't afford my mortgage, so I live in a shed in my yard.
After a tech layoff, Lauren Patton couldn't afford her mortgage. So she built a tiny home and lives there while renting the main home on Airbnb.
Cisco's $283 million Israel business puts its military ties under scrutiny
Internal documents reveal how Cisco rushed engineers to Israeli military intelligence facilities after technical failures threatened a $67 million business relationship. The company's deep involvement in defense and intelligence infrastructure has also triggered employee protests and a shareholder challenge over its human-rights policies.
Does Andy Burnham’s pivot from press to social media put scrutiny at risk?
A lifestyle podcast or brief TV clip is less taxing than a full press conference – but No 10 insists the PM is not ducking accountability
Scientists discover new jellyfish species in waters off Alicante in Spain
The Mediterranean Sea still holds species unknown to science. One of them is Copula lucentia, a tiny jellyfish measuring just a few millimeters. Discovered off El Campello, in Alicante, it was formally ...
Rutgers study finds prenatal exposure to wildfires may be associated with risk of autism
Fine, tiny particles from wildfires are 30 times smaller than the width of human hair, and are easily inhalable.
Russell Brand's convictions renew spotlight on media — and a culture — that may have looked away
Russell Brand's convictions this week for rape and sexual assault have renewed scrutiny on the BBC and other media employers that may have looked the other way.
Hozy for PS5, Xbox Series launches November 9
Cozy renovation and cleaning game Hozy will launch for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on November 9, publisher tinyBuild and developer Come On Games announced.
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
For decades, scientists have struggled to build a clear picture of the butterflies’ routes.
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
For decades, scientists have struggled to build a clear picture of the butterflies’ routes.
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
For decades, scientists have struggled to build a clear picture of the butterflies’ routes.
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
For decades, scientists have struggled to build a clear picture of the butterflies’ routes.
Octopuses Can Squeeze Their Bodies Through Tiny Holes, And Scientists Are in Awe
Learn from the masters.
Octopuses Can Squeeze Their Bodies Through Tiny Holes, And Scientists Are in Awe
Learn from the masters.
What the US midterms mean for business
Democrats’ US midterm victory could reshape tariffs, AI regulation and corporate scrutiny. IMD experts explain what business leaders should watch.
How octopuses squeeze through tiny openings, step by step
In the lab, octopuses used specific moves to slip arms and a bulbous body through tiny holes. The finding could inspire new body plans for soft robots.
Tesla and SpaceX brace for political scrutiny as Elon Musk is targeted
Lou Basenese warns that targeting Elon Musk and his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, could negatively impact 401(k) plans and pension funds. Lawmakers are scrutinizing government contracts, political donations, and widely held stocks.
Brand conviction shines light on entertainment industry's culture of silence
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russell Brand's conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain's entertainment industry has treated high-profile performers
Brand Conviction Shines Light on Entertainment Industry's Culture of Silence
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russell Brand's conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain's entertainment industry has treated high-profile performers accused of abusing their power, with some women saying they feared speaking out could damage their ...
After denying sale plans, Mark Walter seeks $3B for Cadillac F1 team: report
The potential sale is the latest in a series of moves by Walter to pare back his sprawling sports holdings amid scrutiny of his financial businesses.
How Democrats’ midterm gains could reshape the political landscape for AI
Democratic midterm wins could increase scrutiny of AI data centers and power demand, but President Donald Trump retains veto power over any federal legislation.
How science influenced Abdul El-Sayed's politics
The Michigan senate-elect says evidence-based policymaking, public health and scientific scrutiny of corporate influence shape his positions on healthcare, environmental safety and government
Why CVS is breaking up its pharmacy empire now
CVS is splitting off its retail pharmacies as lawmakers intensify scrutiny of vertically integrated insurers, PBMs and pharmacy owners.
Why CVS is breaking up its pharmacy empire now
CVS is splitting off its retail pharmacies as lawmakers intensify scrutiny of vertically integrated insurers, PBMs and pharmacy owners.
Pilot explains landing at one of the world's most challenging airports
Landing at the tiny Caribbean airstrip is bumpy and intense, but I love the thrill. Here's what passengers don't see during the extreme approach.
Tiny Chihuahuas Hold a Big Surprise: A Sliver of Coyote DNA
The breed is descended from indigenous canines, which may have been intentionally mixed with wild coyotes long before Europeans arrived in the Americas.
A tiny chunk of Australia seeded Southeast Asia's tropical forests 50 million years ago, plant fossils preserved in amber reveal
An analysis of plant fossils preserved in amber from Myanmar revealed that the West Burma Block, a chunk of crust that broke off of Australia, seeded Southeast Asia's lush tropical forests.
CVS is breaking up its pharmacy businesses
The move comes with the drugstore giant facing scrutiny from lawmakers
Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Sees Modest Fair Value Cut As Analysts Lower Targets
Flutter Entertainment is under fresh scrutiny after analysts cut their central fair value estimate from US$132.56 to US$126.15. That shift comes alongside research that highlights lower price targets in general, as analysts weigh guidance cuts, competition and the outlook for prediction markets against ongoing support for FanDuel and engagement driven growth plans. In the sections that follow, you will see how this evolving narrative may shape how you monitor Flutter Entertainment from...
Elon Musk will face scrutiny from Democrats in Washington and Texas after midterms
Democrats are likely to launch investigations into Musk's influence, including his leadership of DOGE and government contracts
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
Solar-powered radio tags attached to nearly 1,750 monarchs this year are helping provide answers to monarchs' migration routes.
Chinese scientists make toothbrush that uses electric shocks to reduce plaque
The self-charging devices can generate tiny currents designed to disrupt the spread of bacteria in the mouth.
Kevin O'Connell Scrutiny Returns Amid Vikings QB Struggles
Despite high-profile roster upgrades, Minnesota’s offense remains stagnant. With Kyler Murray struggling to find his rhythm, pressure mounts on Kevin O’Connell to adapt his system before the season slips away.
CVS to break up $117B business, separating pharmacies from insurance
The split comes amid growing scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators of vertically integrated health care companies such as CVS.
A tiny squeeze dramatically changes the magnetism of exotic materials
Scientists have discovered that a simple mechanical squeeze can dramatically alter the magnetic properties and electrical behavior of exotic materials called altermagnets. The surprising breakthrough could open the door to faster, more energy-efficient electronics and new technologies for quantum computing.
Apple HomePod Mini 2 Review: Still Small, But With Much Larger SoundApple’s HomePod Mini 2 Is Just as Tiny, but My Tests Found Powerful Upgrades
What’s inside the 2026 HomePod, especially its audio, helps it stand apart from the old HomePod Mini, but Siri AI remains an open question.
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate. In the spring, when temperatures warm, they awaken, mate and begin their migration north again to lay their eggs. In Texas, scientists with the National Wildlife Federation are now tracking monarchs during their migration to understand where they roost and protect the habitats they rely on.
Someone Just Solved A 30-Year-Old RPG Secret
You can get Lilith in Tales of Destiny after all, no cheats required
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking devices to hundreds of butterflies to find those critical stopover locations before they ...
The 2026 iPad Mini is a terrific tiny tablet — for a big price
Good news for pilots everywhere.
List of DVD release dates for Nov. 3 and beyond
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: NOVEMBER 3: The End of Oak Street 3: KPop Demon Hunters 3: Mutiny 3:
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking ...
Georgia Football Needs a Strong Economy, Not an Uncertain Business Climate Under Keisha Lance Bottoms
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football operates in an increasingly complicated financial environment. The Bulldogs compete against programs with enormous resources, sophisticated recruiting operations and growing NIL budgets. Maintaining that advantage requires Georgia to remain an attractive destination for businesses and major donors. Keisha Lance Bottoms’ proposed pause on new data center construction deserves scrutiny from…
Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
Every August, monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains begin their migration from southern Canada and the northern United States to central Mexico to hibernate.
How To Quit Spotify And Improve Your Life In The Process
It's a lot easier than you're probably thinking
Scientists Built an Electric Motor Out of a Single Molecule Inspired by Archimedes' 2,000-Year-Old Invention
A tiny electric screw spins in either direction — and becomes a better conductor as it turns.
Granite Geek: Keeping track of a tiny beast that would make a cute Beanie Baby — for science!
A short distance behind Kearsarge High School sits a small part of a continent-wide effort to understand a species that has one very important trait: Cuteness. “Oh, they’re just adorable,” said Carrie Deegan of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests as she led a group of spectators, including me, to the Black […]
Dozens of Commonwealth leaders descend on Antigua at time of global political turbulence
Leaders representing nearly a third of the world’s population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties at a time of global political upheaval
When it comes to election pressure, this year's Georgia or Michigan could be anywhere
The districts that will decide control of the House and Senate next year are spread across the country. Voting officials in those places may face scrutiny and pressure they've never experienced.
Vikings Week 8 Stock Market Report
The Minnesota Vikings lost for the first time in their last twelve contests, falling 19-15 on the road against the Detroit Lions. It was a game that will bring more scrutiny and criticism of the Vikings offense, as the Vikings were unable to drive the field much on several occasions, or possess the ball very […]
Dozens of Commonwealth leaders descend on Antigua during global political turbulence
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Leaders representing nearly a third of the world’s population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties during a time of global political upheaval.
Dozens of Commonwealth leaders descend on Antigua during global political turbulence
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Dozens of Commonwealth leaders descend on Antigua during global political turbulence
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Leaders representing nearly a third of the world’s population are meeting on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua this week to strengthen ties during a time of global p…
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,
Tiny fish, big hope: The science bringing rare epilepsy research home
Latest press releases and corporate announcements from EdgeNewswire
Health insurers leave millions unpaid for mental health crisis care in California
California counties report millions in denied or underpaid charges for mobile mental health crisis responses, prompting state scrutiny of insurers and calls for enforcement of a law requiring coverage.
Letters: Michael Sacks is Chicago’s version of billionaire politics
When Michael Sacks enters the political arena, he should expect scrutiny. He should expect to defend his positions.
Will Josh Shapiro’s Data Center Past Haunt his Political Future?
As Pennsylvania’s popular governor gears up for a potential presidential run, his reversal on the issue draws scrutiny.
Scientists use sound waves to deliver a new attack on deadly brain cancer
Scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a promising new strategy to fight glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat forms of brain cancer. Their experimental approach combines focused ultrasound, tiny nanoparticles, and genetic molecules called microRNAs to attack multiple cancer-driving genes simultaneously.
A surprising vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered a surprising process that helps humans develop sharp vision before birth, challenging decades of assumptions about how the eye forms. Using miniature human retinas grown in the lab, researchers discovered that a vitamin A derivative and thyroid hormones work together to shape the foveola, the tiny region at the center of the retina responsible for our sharpest vision.
Alina Habba’s Husband Ignited Drama in Trump’s Circle. Now He’s Under Scrutiny.
Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders. His story has inconsistencies.
Wendy’s and IHOP Face Buyout Bids. Going Private Is Easy, Fixing a Business Is Hard.
Private-equity firms are targeting struggling U.S. restaurant chains to revive them away from public-market scrutiny.
Mapping the Political Influencer Industry and the Problems it Causes for Democracy
This election cycle, political influencers are everywhere—and their activities are increasingly under scrutiny, say Isabel Linzer, Zoe Tzanis & Samuel Woolley.
Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era
I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.
The politics of war
Israel went to the polls last Tuesday and it is the turn of the United States next Tuesday. The differences in the two elections are self-evident. Compared with the US, which has favourable geography and does everything at scale, Israel is tiny and part of an unstable region. For its elections, it has adopted an almost pure form of proportional representation based on lists. This encourages multiple parties and can make it almost impossible to form a government, as we can now see. The US system is complex in its own way but discourages third parties. Yet for all the differences in size, geography, and political systems, the fates of the two countries are closely connected. Israel has come to depend on the US to sustain its military strength, and over the past few tumultuous years that dependence has created resentment in the United States. The Biden administration was punished for appearing to give Netanyahu a blank check after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and not holding Israel back as it employed ruthless tactics in Gaza. Because of the treatment of Palestinians, American views of Israel have grown progressively more negative over the past few years. Only a third now support the Israeli government. While on the left, this is largely because of how Israeli forces have operated in Gaza and, more recently, how the settler movement has behaved in the West Bank, for the American right the issue has been about how Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Donald Trump to forget his wariness about more Middle Eastern wars and agree to a joint attack on Iran, which has gone badly wrong. The Palestine question was not a big issue for the two large Jewish blocs in last Tuesday’s election. Both supported a tough response to Hamas after October 2023 and neither accepts a two-state solution. It was, however, the threat posed by the ethno-nationalist policies of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two extreme members of Netanyahu’s coalition, and their tolerance, even encouragement, of settler violence, that brought out the Arab voters. (In principle this should strengthen their position though to turn into real power would require the ‘Change Bloc’ overcoming their opposition to involving Arab parties. The alternatives are a National Unity government, defection from the Change Bloc to Netanyahu, or deadlock and another round of elections in the new year.) There was also broad support for the war against Iran among the Jewish parties. The difficulty here is that the objectives behind the war have yet to be met, and that continuing with military operations depends on the United States. In this way the two elections have come together at a crucial moment. If Netanyahu hoped that a victory over Iran would help him retain his majority, cementing his legacy as an Israeli war leader, it did not work out that way. Trump also expected a great victory about which he could boast. He promised at most the end of a hateful and aggressive regime, with a record of hostility to both the United States and Israel, or at least the elimination of Iran’s military capabilities and the end of its nuclear programme. Eight months on, there is not much to boast about; vital objectives remain elusive: the Iranian regime is even more hardline than before; the international economy is barely coping with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and Saudi Arabia is struggling with an unwanted conflict with the Yemeni Houthis. For all these reasons, the Iran War has been a dark cloud hanging over both elections. Yet the issue has been approached in different ways. Netanyahu sought to push the issue before the election while Trump has been more cautious. Trump’s essential claim is that there is nothing to worry about and he’s still working out what final steps need to be taken to provide a definitive conclusion to the conflict. Netanyahu’s final pitch was that there was lots to worry about. He focused on Israel’s dire security situation, with the Iran War unfinished and the prospect of imminent economic isolation because of international sanctions. For him it is imperative to defeat Iran decisively, and without delay. Why this different response to the same war? Part of the answer lies in how public opinion in the two countries responded to the war. In this post, I show how this came about. We await the outcome of the US midterms but know the result, at least in terms of the share of the vote if not yet the shape of the new government, of the Israeli election. With the elections out of the way Netanyahu is pressing for another round in the war. Trump is less sure. I conclude with thoughts on the importance of how he decides.
In China, the War on Mosquitoes Has Entered the A.I. Era
Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.
Mental health awareness is personal for Colts quarterback Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones has experienced all the highs and lows associated with playing quarterback in the NFL.He was under intense scrutiny from the moment the New York Giants made him a surprise pick with the No.
Justice Department subpoenas California officials in elections scrutiny
The Los Angeles County registrar Dean Logan said, "threats and intimidated have no place in elections"
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.’
Pentagon investigates freezer failures as French attacks expose coverage gaps
Suspected cyber attacks at US military stores put the gap between cyber and property coverage under scrutiny
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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