The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest
Champions League draw LIVE: 2026-27 league phase fixtures, schedule
Teams across Europe discover their opponents at the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League draw in Monaco.
Six months after US strike on Iran school, parents still grieve
Six months after a US missile strike on an Iranian school killed at least 170 people, most of them children.
Israeli settlers targeting Palestinian factories to force workers off land
Settler violence threatens to collapse the fragile Palestinian economy.
‘Silence is complicity’ – top footballer hits out over Cameroon femicides
The killing of at least eight women in a week has sparked outrage in Cameroon.
Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy criticises Israeli strikes and Hamas actions
Nickolay Mladenov warns that a collapse of last October’s ceasefire would be “a point of no return” for the region.
Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladić dies aged 84
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
The monstrous crimes of Ratko Mladic, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
The Bosnian Serb commander led a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian conflict.
Study challenges traditional breast cancer classification methods
Breast cancer is often classified as either estrogen receptor-positive (hormone-sensitive) or not. However, a new study from Karolinska Institutet suggests that this simplified classification may
New funding backs pioneering research to make brain cancer treatment more effective
Adelaide researchers are challenging decades-old assumptions about brain cancer treatment in a bid to make radiation therapy more effective against tumors, while reducing damage to
Brain shrinkage biomarker may predict early-onset Alzheimer’s progression
In people diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a biomarker tool that detects shrinkage of the brain’s gray matter may predict how quickly someone may progress
Internet-controlled brain implant enables remote neural stimulation and drug delivery
A researcher in Chicago remotely controls a miniaturized brain implant in Daejeon, Korea – over the internet. Korean researchers have developed a wireless device that
UK salmonella cases nearing 500 as egg investigations continue
Close to 500 people have become ill with salmonella linked to imported eggs, say UK authorities who are investigating more clusters.
New platform enables large-scale production of custom proteins
Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E. coli cells, to produce proteins they don’t