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Why AI Agents Lie, Cheat, And Hack, And Why It's Getting Harder To Stop Them

Toddlers Are Still Smarter Than ChatGPT, And Scientists Want To Know Why

Understanding exactly why may be the most consequential question at the intersection of AI and human development, with implications for everything from how we build the next generation of AI models to what it means to be a thinking, language-using creature in the first place.

The Cancer Vaccine Nobody Believed In, Until It Worked

August 19, 2026 is likely to be remembered as the day the mRNA cancer vaccine stopped being a bet and became a result.

Biology Needs Its Own Reckoning With AI, Before It's Too Late

AI is already reshaping biological research at pace. That is genuinely useful. It is also genuinely risky, in ways that are specific to biology and that the general AI ethics conversation has not yet fully grappled with.

Everything We Thought We Knew About How The Brain Stores Memories May Be Wrong

Memories, we've long believed, live in synapses, the connections between neurons that strengthen when we learn and weaken when we forget.

Scientists Just Reversed A Form Of Molecular Damage Thought To Be Permanent

The potential applications are wide. CMLase could in theory be formulated as eye drops to clear AGEs from the lens, applied to restore elasticity in stiffened blood vessels, or used to treat skin.

AI Alignment Is No Longer A Thought Experiment, And That's A Problem

AI alignment is the challenge of ensuring that an AI system does what its creator actually intends, rather than what it was literally told to do.

DeepMind Just Gave Hurricane Forecasters An Extra Day, And It Could Save Thousands Of Lives

For the hundreds of millions of people living in hurricane-prone coastlines around the world, an extra day of reliable warning is not an incremental improvement. It is, in the most literal sense, a matter of life and death.

An Experimental Pediatric Cancer Treatment Shows Promise In New Research

A single infusion of the cells last year resulted in a complete remission. The boy just came in for his follow-up, Seitz says. More than a year later, he still has no detectable signs of cancer.

Glaucoma Drugs Could One Day Be Used To Treat Breast Cancer

Glaucoma drugs could potentially be repurposed to treat aggressive breast cancer after researchers identified markers linked to response.

Cancer Treatment Timing May Influence Survival And Toxicity

Morning immunotherapy and chronomodulated chemotherapy were linked with improved treatment outcomes.

New Analysis Explains Why Bone Marrow Cancer T Cells May Need Therapeutic Activation

A specific group of tumor-reactive T cells can recognize and, in principle, fight cancer cells but is often not sufficiently activated.