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The best team in every Power Four conference
This chaotic season of college football continues to blur the national picture. Here’s who we at The Comeback have as the best team in each Power Four conference, along with the challengers worth watching, and what will shape the College Football Playoff race down to the wire. ACC: Miami Hurricanes The Miami Hurricanes have earned…
Small businesses can take control of health care costs with Chamber Health Plan
Health insurance costs are climbing, but some Wausau-area businesses are finding ways to save. One local nonprofit says it lowered costs while providing coverage to more employees. Now, the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce is offering a free webinar to show other businesses how its health plan works. Here's how to sign up.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
An undisputed leader of the Mexican left, Cárdenas was the son of one of the country’s most popular presidents — Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas. He was respected by allies and critics alike.
Can Rockies' Mejia Turn Things Around in 2027?
Colorado Rockies right-hander Juan Mejia did not have a very good season, but one critical thing he has on his side is time.
Protecting Trans Young People’s Right to Access Gender-Affirming Care
Ensuring trans youth can access the health care they need — and are entitled to under Minnesota law.
Thursday Night Football fantasy: Tetairoa McMillan and Jalen Coker
The Panthers are leaning heavily on Tetairoa McMillan and Jalen Coker. Can fantasy managers trust them on Thursday Night Football and beyond?
Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say
A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how burning fossil fuels may have stopped an ice age in its infancy, new research finds
You can opt out of political texts, but campaign calls may keep coming
Political text messages filling up your phone? Here are ways to reduce unwanted campaign messages.
New NGA, Matter Neuroscience, Napolitan Institute National Survey Finds Americans Want Leaders Who Demonstrate Dignity
As Americans head to the polls in November, survey finds voters see political life marked by disrespect and dehumanization; Companion report examines everyday conditions associated with well-being WASHINGTON – The National Governors Association (NGA), Matter Neuroscience and Napolitan Institute today released “Dignity in American Political Life: What Registered Voters See — and What They Say […]
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate in the state after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting another candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
RWJBarnabas Health Raises Awareness of Stroke Warning Signs and Importance of Early Intervention This World Stroke Day
In recognition of World Stroke Day, RWJBarnabas Health shares the inspiring recovery story of 35-year-old stroke survivor Mat Mahoney, highlighting the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms, seeking immediate medical attention and accessing coordinated, specialized stroke care. Following a life-saving mechanical thrombectomy at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Mat is sharing his experience to remind others that strokes can happen at any age.
China tests powerful AI that could one day be used on submarines
Breakthrough in China’s race with the US over exploration of applying AI to military operations amid deep-sea trials in Philippine Basin.
Why do we see ghosts? The science behind spooky encounters
Why do people see ghosts? Wake Forest associate teaching professor of psychology Melissa Maffeo says our brains like to make sense of things we can’t easily explain. She shares the science behind ghost sightings, from strange sounds to sleep paralysis.
Canadian Valley Tech students earn fair ribbons, business pitch prize
Canadian Valley Technology Center students won state fair photography honors and a $500 prize for a car dealership app.
This Is the Perfect Commute Length for Your Happiness, According to Science
A survey of 2,000 commuters suggests that shorter trips leave workers feeling more relaxed, while longer journeys can increase stress.
Serbia’s Students Changed How Serbians Think About Politics
The election win for Serbia’s Student List reflects a deep desire for more democratic ways of doing politics. The test now is to see how the different forces within the movement can collaborate in changing the country’s institutions.
Serbia’s Students Changed How Serbians Think About Politics
The election win for Serbia’s Student List reflects a deep desire for more democratic ways of doing politics. The test now is to see how the different forces within the movement can collaborate in cha...
Political posts on social media can lead to legal trouble, A-State professor says
Posting about politics on social media can get people in trouble, even if they are sharing an opinion, according to an Arkansas State University political scientist.
Tip of the Week: BBB warns of fake invoices tricking local businesses
The BBB is seeing an increase in fake invoice scams.While this scam typically target businesses, anyone can be fooled by a phony invoice.
Intuit (INTU): Exiting Amid AI-Driven Business Model Uncertainty
Matrix Asset Advisors, an asset management company, released its Q3 2026 investor letter. The letter can be downloaded here. U.S. equities increased by 2.30% in Q3 and 12.75% year-to-date through September 30, despite challenges including volatility, high oil prices, inflation, and elevated interest rates. The Federal Reserve’s short-term rates rose to 3.75%–4.00%, with the 10-year […]
Missouri marijuana businesses await IRS rules on promised federal tax relief
A federal change could save cannabis companies millions, but businesses that sell both medical and recreational marijuana face unanswered questions.
UC San Diego Health Expert Available: Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer and is often diagnosed at an advanced stage because symptoms can be subtle and easily mistaken for other conditions. During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Andrew Lowy, MD, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UC San Diego Health and a nationally recognized pancreatic cancer expert, is available for interviews about the latest challenges and advances in pancreatic cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Lowy is available
Johns Hopkins Researchers’ Cancer Cell Mapping Technology Chosen for Anthropic AI for Science Project
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Alexander Szalay, Ph.D., and Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Dermatology and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., were chosen for a research project in Anthropic's AI for Science program. They were selected for their pioneering AstroPath technology, which combines astronomy, pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) to create detailed maps of tumors, revealing how cancer cells interact with surrounding cells
Americans Are Open to AI in Healthcare, but Want Humans Making Final Calls
Americans are generally open to AI handling administrative and medical tasks, but they largely don’t want AI operating without human oversight. About half (47%) say AI will make the relationship between patients and their doctors worse, compared with 10% who say it will make it better.
When is Canelo vs M'Billi? What time are this weekend's biggest combat sports fights on DAZN
Find out when Canelo vs M'Billi, RWS 219, OKTAGON 96 and Naiza FC 86 start this weekend, with UK times and DAZN viewing links.
Crooked Can brewery and dining hall adding Sunday outdoor market
Crooked Can is launching a weekly outdoor market with local treats, fresh bites and social vibes.
College football Week 9 players to watch: Can Miami's Javian Mallory continue to find the end zone against North Carolina?
Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying
Anthropic faces intense competitive pressure and huge fixed costs. Can Claude build itself fast enough to succeed?
Which political party is better for your pocketbook?
Personal income grew 2.8% when Republicans controlled the White House vs. 3.1% when Democrats were in charge.
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.
Your Health, Their Platforms
The issue of healthcare could decide this year’s midterms. Here are the plans of six potentially history-making candidates.
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science Announces Expansion into Spain Through Strategic Partnership with UniSthetic
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science, the fastest-growing professional skincare brand in the U.S., announces its expansion into Spain through a strategic partnership with UniSthetic, a leading provider in the country's professional aesthetics and skincare industry. This partnership marks another significant milestone in HYDRINITY's continued global growth, introducing its portfolio of clinically backed, advanced regenerative skincare solutions to one of Europe's most established medical aesthetics
Lynn Barr: A story made at UC Berkeley
Putting Americans in control of their own health data is Lynn Barr’s newest mission, and it fits a pattern: She spots a problem and goes straight at it.
American Express Connects Cash Back to High Yield Savings Accounts and Business Checking Accounts
NEW YORK, October 29, 2026--Today, American Express introduced a new way for eligible U.S. Consumer and Business Cash Back Card Members to redeem rewards for a deposit into eligible American Express bank accounts, creating a more integrated experience across their Card and banking products and giving customers more options in how to redeem the rewards they earn.
American College of Education Launches a Doctor of Business Administration for Under $22,000
The fully online DBA from ACE started its first cohort in October, with a second to follow in November.INDIANAPOLIS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / October 29, 2026 / (ACE) recently expanded its academic offerings by launching an online Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree program.
Study: Fewer Americans willing to have someone with opposing political views marry into their family
Boo-ming business: KSU expert explains why consumers spend on Halloween
The National Retail Federation projects Halloween spending to reach a record $13.5 billion. Kennesaw State's Patrick Fennell explains how nostalgia, family traditions, social connections and self-expression drive spending on costumes, candy and decorations.
Alaska governor orders investigation into ‘Dan Sullivan’ ballot controversy
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation into claims Democrats recruited a namesake candidate in a key Senate race. (
McLean County health officials warn of hidden lead exposure risks in household items
While lead-based paint and contaminated water are commonly associated with lead exposure, health officials say some household products can also pose risks.
Political information increasingly comes from pop culture, outside of partisan silos but where male creators – and sometimes misogyny
Younger Americans’ pop culture favorites have multipartisan appeal, but male creators dominate the list of top influencers, podcasters and comedians.
How the law protecting Americans from surprise medical bills is driving up healthcare costs
A handful of providers are hijacking the arbitration process – and consumers are likely to foot the bill.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, historic Mexican politician and former presidential candidate, dies at 92
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a three-time presidential candidate and one of Mexico's most important modern political voices, died Wednesday at 92, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.
Veteran Financial Guru and Fox Business Host, Charles Payne, Launches New Book Undeniable Windfalls Published by Paradigm Direct
Undeniable Windfalls is the newest book by Fox Business host Charles Payne, released in late 2026. The book is designed to provide everyday retail investors with a practical formula to identify, buy, and hold onto high-potential stocks that can generate life-changing financial returns.
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign.
DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17 Billion in Big Consolidation for Grocery Delivery
DoorDash is gobbling up Instacart in a $17 billion acquisition that will supercharge its grocery delivery business. DoorDash said the Instacart brand name and app will remain, and Instacart shoppers can continue fulfilling orders for Instacart. Grocers can also choose to work with Instacart or ...
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
The Israel debate reshaping Jewish American politics
“There are plenty of people who believe, as I do, that Israel has a right to protect itself,” says David to Lauren, both pictured below, over the dinner table. Subscribe “How does starving children protect Israel?” she replies. “I don’t think Israel is intentionally starving children.” “It’s a little bit absurd to be sitting here talking about all of these very specific things,” Lauren says, “as opposed to looking at the totality of him as a candidate, and the 90% of things that you agree with him on.” This is a snapshot from a conversation between a Jewish father and daughter in Michigan ahead of the crucial Senate race. Lauren supports the Democratic candidate, Abdul El-Sayed. Her father is undecided. That is mainly because of El-Sayed’s stance on Israel, one that mirrors a growing wing of the party that has become critical of the US-Israel relationship following the war in Gaza. You’re reading FourSight, a newsletter from Channel 4 News’ expert journalists explaining the complexities of the biggest global stories Could that alienate Jewish American voters who have a strong connection to Israel - and the majority of whom have voted Democratic? A shifting stance on Israel “An ally that takes your money to push you into wars you shouldn’t be fighting is not an ally,” El-Sayed recently told ABC News, referring to the Iran war and how some Americans believe that Israel pushed President Trump into the conflict. Foreign policy has become an economic issue that’s hitting Americans’ pockets, with the soaring cost of petrol and diesel. El-Sayed, pictured below, has opposed military aid for Israel and accused the nation of genocide in Gaza. That led to the pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, funding his opponent, Hayley Stevens, to the tune of $30m during the Democratic primary here. “I frequently criticise AIPAC because I think the way that they are pouring dollars into defeating Abdul and others around the country… is really corrosive to American democracy,” Brad Lander says at a canvassing event in Detroit. Lander, a Jewish Democratic congressional candidate in New York, is an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and has come to campaign for El-Sayed. “Democrats and Americans don’t want to keep paying for Netanyahu’s wars,” he says. “They want a reset in the US relationship with Israel.” The 2026 election has clearly been a bruising one for AIPAC; the Wall Street Journal reported that, in an unpublished letter, the group described the cycle as one of the “most challenging environments in recent memory”. Share And significantly, after the midterms, the group will stop direct contributions to candidates through one of its political action committees. Voters’ concerns We followed a group of Jewish canvassers around one suburb in Detroit. They think that among the 130,000 Jewish voters in Michigan, between 20 and 30,000 are undecided. In a swing state where El-Sayed beat his primary rival by just 13,000, that could prove pivotal. We meet one voter, Jen Friedman, pictured below, who has a “Democrats for Rogers” sign, referring to the Republican candidate. The issue of Israel is very important to her because “having a safe haven is crucial”, she tells me. “What I see is one candidate, Mike Rogers, who is associating himself with people who are very proudly American,” says Jen. “Abdul, on the other hand, is associating with people who say they are anti-American.” Friedman raises two issues. Firstly, Hasan Piker, a left-wing streamer who has campaigned alongside El-Sayed and has been criticised for his comments on the US and Israel. [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) [ Why Hasan Piker thinks the US needs a socialist Trump ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) Anushka Asthana · Aug 19 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/who-is-hasan-piker-the-socialist) The other concern regards an attack on a Michigan synagogue back in March. The FBI said the man was inspired by Hezbollah and had lost relatives in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon. El-Sayed condemned the antisemitic attack, but also said “hurt people hurt people”. That upset many here, with El-Sayed apologising numerous times for his choice of language. Jews for Abdul As we follow the canvassers, there are still plenty of lawn signs supporting El-Sayed. Elissa Driker, pictured below, runs out of her house wearing a “Jews for Abdul” t-shirt. “I feel like the values that Abdul has align with how I live my Judaism,” she tells me. She says “Abdul is not Hasan Piker, so I don’t conflate them”. I ask why Piker keeps coming up. “It gets weaponised. I don’t know if you watched the debate the other night, but talk about… weaponising fear and weaponising anxiety and all that Islamophobic dog-whistling that was coming towards Abdul.” I also talk to Elissa about how Americans more broadly appear to be questioning the US-Israel relationship and whether American Jews were ready to do that too. “A lot of American Jews are. My experience is absolutely the tide is turning.” For the first time, Gallup found this year that Americans now sympathise more with the Palestinians than the Israelis. In another poll of Jewish American voters, 65% said they were pro-Israel but also critical of Israeli government policies, 52% support cutting or eliminating aid to Israel. Father and daughter Back at the dinner table, I bring up those polls with David Fink. Why does he think Americans sympathise less with Israelis? [ ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) [ How support for Israel in US is declining ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) Kiran Moodley · May 4 [ Read full story ](https://channel4news.substack.com/p/how-support-for-israel-in-us-is-declining) “Because the news media and the extremes of both parties are so willing to tell what I think is a false narrative.” Lauren chimes in: “Do you really think the actions of Israel have nothing to do with the shift in the sympathies?” “I think that’s very relevant,” he replies. “I just don’t think that people really have a full understanding.” Lauren again: “It sounds like you’re saying that the shift is due to how the atrocities are being described, as opposed to what the actual atrocities are.” “There have been some things that shouldn’t have happened,” David says. “I think the polling is being driven by politicians who are taking advantage of this issue.” Lauren then asks, “I’m curious what your response would be if my children were killed in an Israeli airstrike and someone said there have been some things that shouldn’t have happened?” A long pause from her father. “Any reference to my grandchildren has a very deep emotional impact on me. Well done,” he says. “I have an empathy for any civilian in war and I don’t mean to belittle those losses. The loss of any one life is a horrible thing. But it doesn’t make it a war crime and it doesn’t make it genocide.” Lauren and David cannot agree but tell me how proud they are of one another for sticking to their convictions and for agreeing to let me sit in on their conversation. I cannot thank them enough for their time, and hope their honesty informs and educates many people during such a fraught election. Abdul El-Sayed: The candidate testing the US - Israel relationship Thanks for reading our latest FourSight newsletter. Subscribe to receive free weekly newsletters from Channel 4 News. Subscribe Share Channel 4 News Leave a comment
California researchers awarded grant to develop sudden cardiac arrest early warning system
DALLAS, Oct. 29, 2026 — More than 600,000 cardiac arrests occur in the U.S. each year, and survival rates remain low both in and out of the hospital, according to the American Heart Association. A new research project funded by the Association will...
High-level Roundtable: Safeguarding Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during Global Health Architecture Reform
How can sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) be safeguarded during global health architecture reform? At a high-level roundtable hosted by the Government of Spain and the Government of South Africa, in its capacity as Chair of the Global Leaders Network (GLN), with support from PMNCH and WHEN, participants called for sustainable domestic financing, rights-based health systems and meaningful civil society engagement.
Maryland women’s basketball gets ‘unreal’ opportunity in Paris opener
In 2008, Maryland women’s basketball first faced South Carolina in Cancún, Mexico. Nearly 18 years later, the programs will meet for the 10th time — and once again, in a different country. No. 20 Maryland will face No. 1 South Carolina on Monday at Adidas Arena in Paris to open its season. The game is part of the Oui-Play event, which has featured college women’s basketball matchups in Paris ...
Climate Change Can Cause Small Business Displacement Beyond Major Disasters
Sponsored: The myriad effects of climate change compound challenges many Black, Brown, and immigrant-owned businesses already face.
Missouri's Most Controversial Politician? A Candid Convo With Sec. Of State Denny Hoskins
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Marlins’ 2026 Awards Show Promise Despite Missing Playoffs
Javier Sanoja and Otto Lopez earned top honors while Sandy Alcantara returns to form, proving the Marlins have talent even without a playoff berth.
Detroit Lions Named Potential Destination for 4 NFL Trade Targets
The Detroit Lions have been named potential landing spots for four NFL trade candidates, including two cornerbacks and a former first-round pick.
Price Crisis: Local food businesses struggle, adapt as costs continue to rise
“Bills, bills, bills,” John Kelly said, with a sigh. “And then there’s nothing left at the end of the week.” For Kelly, and Lauren Ellis, his co-owner at Red Raven Surf and Turf, the situation is doubly demoralizing. Not only do they, along with most middle-class Americans, struggle with recent price hikes for most food, […]
Joe Manchin slams political extremes on 'Hang Out with Sean Hannity'
Sean Hannity shares an exclusive preview of his upcoming podcast interview with former Sen. Joe Manchin. Manchin discusses the rise of political extremes running the country and calls for common-sense Americans to speak up.
Scientists can now rewire living brains
The tool could eventually lead to an entirely new approach for treating mental health
3 Ways ProgenyHealth Can Transform Maternity and Infant Health, Claims Management
Pregnancy and NICU admissions are among the most complex areas in healthcare. A new report from ProgenyHealth highlights how the company can work with Medicaid and commercial health plans to uncover insights and hidden risks critical to improving maternal and infant care and reducing costs.
“Some UFOs can disappear without a trace.” Why scientists still struggle to explain certain reports
Some UFOs seem to vanish so abruptly that the footage looks almost impossible. The real mystery is determining if the object disappeared—or if our ability to see it did.
Sabyasachi Sen honored for outstanding contributions to glass science
Indian American UC Davis professor receives 2026 George W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society.
Phillies' rotation is set, but they can't procrastinate on adding depth
Late-season injuries left the Phillies searching for innings in back-to-back years. Four possible additions could keep them from scrambling again.
In Creole Country, Black Residents Ask What the Fight for Voting Rights Delivers
Opelousas has shaped the fight for Black voting rights for centuries. Today, residents disagree over whether Democrats, Republicans, or racial solidarity offer a path forward.
Republicans are trying to make the Texas Senate race about “manliness”
Ken Paxton keeps accusing James Talarico of being “low-T.” Do voters care?
Trump defends war in Iran, tariffs during Texas campaign swing
Despite polls showing most Texans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy and the war in Iran, Trump can’t stop talking about both.
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Elizabeth Holmes in intense 'You Can See Everything' parody
Fallon gives his best Nathan Fielder.
Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election
Former president says ‘these are not serious people’ as Trump holds rallies for Republican candidates
Alaska's governor orders investigation after NYT report on alleged Dem-linked Senate election scheme
Following a New York Times report on an alleged Democrat-linked scheme involving the state's U.S. Senate contest, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation.
Support Hubs Help New Researchers Break Through Bottlenecks at Big Science Facilities
A formative evaluation of a Horizon Europe project finds that dedicated support hubs significantly raise the odds that new researchers clear technical feasibility checks at European research infrastructures, while a downstream gap between laboratory validation and industrial
For 112 years, a Central NY dairy farm family made milk and memories. Now they can sleep in
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
It's a 'socialist' bank — and North Dakota Republicans love it
Democratic socialist candidates have held up North Dakota's state-owned bank as a model to emulate.
How to deal with a big personality. Art can help.
The fine art of dealing with a know-it-all.
How Ireland became Hollywood's latest hub for global filming
Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
Study reveals new clues to why colorectal cancer in young people is so deadly
Colorectal cancer in young people shows genetic and structural differences that may make it more aggressive and treatment-resistant than the cancer tends to be in older people.
Patrick’s Politics: You can’t afford to vote Republican
Rising inflation and sky-high gas prices. Blatant mismanagement of foreign policy. A fading president losing his grip on reality. These were all attacks used by Republicans against former President…
Exclusive: Ro launches AI agent for healthcare
Ro is just the latest healthcare company to launch an AI agent. Can it become a healthcare "quarterback?"
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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