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Evidence-led coverage of biotechnology, AI infrastructure, energy, robotics, devices and brain–computer interfaces.
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Upscale’s Token Fabric Tries to Make Rival AI Chips Share One Network
Token Fabric combines scale-up links, Ethernet scale-out and network software for heterogeneous AI systems. The commercial launch still needs independent deployment evidence.
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General Fusion’s LM26 Crosses 1 keV Without Claiming Net Energy
LM26 reached a measured electron temperature above 1 keV during compression. The pre-peer-review result is a meaningful physics milestone, not net energy or electricity.
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MolGenBench Finds AI Molecule Generators Struggle on Real Drug-Discovery Tasks
A peer-reviewed benchmark of 17 generative models found weak target awareness, risky chemical motifs and poor generalisation. Better-looking molecules are not yet better drugs.
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Gum-Derived Stem Cells Show a Signal in an 18-Person Type 1 Diabetes Trial
A small randomised Phase I trial linked gingiva-derived cells to stronger C-peptide signals and lower insulin requirements. The result is preliminary and not a cure.
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Prime Editing Enters the Liver as PM577a Doses Its First Wilson Disease Patient
Prime Medicine has begun a first-in-human Phase I/II study of an in-vivo prime editor for Wilson disease. The milestone starts the safety test; it supplies no efficacy result yet.
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RYZ101’s Phase III Win Brings Actinium-225 Cancer Therapy to a Regulatory Test
A planned interim analysis found longer progression-free survival with RYZ101. The topline result advances targeted alpha therapy without yet supplying the full evidence.
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A Data Centre’s Tier Rating Stops Short of an AI Service Guarantee
Tier ratings describe facility infrastructure. AI-service reliability also depends on operations, software and dependencies that need their own evidence.
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Geothermal Lithium’s Promise Depends on Mastering the Brine
Geothermal brine contains a potentially valuable lithium resource. Turning it into battery material requires selective extraction and a complete operating process.
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AI Drug Development Is Taking on the Chemistry of Long-Acting Injections
A company-authored preprint uses AI to balance release, loading and injectability in polymer depots. Its 30-day release profiles are laboratory results.
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Four-Bit AI Shrinks the Model, but Accuracy Still Has to Survive
Low-bit quantisation can reduce AI memory requirements. The useful result depends on which numbers are compressed, the runtime and the quality retained.
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Long-Telomere Families Expose a Trade-Off in Longevity Biology
A study of rare POT1 variants links unusually long telomeres to persistent cell lineages and cancer susceptibility, challenging a simple longevity target.
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Underground Hydrogen Storage Needs More Than an Old Gas Reservoir
Research supports reusing some gas-storage geology for hydrogen. Rock, microbes and withdrawal conditions still determine what each location can deliver.