Artificial intelligence reduced later breast cancer diagnoses by 12% in a major Swedish screening trial.Researchers studied 100,000 women using AI-supported mammography or standard double reading.The AI system helped radiologists flag high-risk scans and fast-track low-risk cases.The study, published in The Lancet, found higher early cancer detection with AI support.Eighty-one percent of cancers were detected during screening in the AI group.The control group detected 74% of cancers at screening.Aggressive cancer subtypes were 27% lower in the AI-supported group.Lead author Dr Kristina Lång of Lund University urged cautious rollout with close monitoring.Experts said AI should support, not replace, trained radiologists.
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Google DeepMind launched AlphaGenome, an AI tool designed to identify genetic drivers of disease.The system predicts how DNA mutations disrupt gene regulation across different tissues.AlphaGenome can analyse up to one million DNA letters simultaneously.Most inherited diseases link to regulatory mutations rather than protein-coding genes.Researchers trained the model on large human and mouse genetics databases.Scientists say it could accelerate cancer research and enable targeted gene therapies.Experts describe AlphaGenome as a major step toward understanding the non-coding genome.
Amazon revealed a new round of global job cuts through an internal email sent in error.The message reached workers at Amazon Web Services.It wrongly said affected staff in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica had already lost their jobs.Senior vice-president Colleen Aubrey signed the draft email.Amazon described the layoffs as “Project Dawn” and linked them to future restructuring.The company cut 14,000 corporate roles in October and continues reducing pandemic-era hiring.Amazon employs about 1.5 million people worldwide and is pushing cost savings and AI adoption.
Scientists launched DinoTracker, an AI app that identifies dinosaurs from fossil footprints with about 90% agreement with human experts.Researchers from University of Edinburgh and Helmholtz-Zentrum trained the system using 2,000 unlabelled footprint silhouettes.The AI groups prints by shared shape features rather than relying on potentially flawed human labels.The team reported the findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Steve Brusatte said the results support long-standing observations of birdlike dinosaur tracks.Other experts caution that footprint shapes may reflect ground conditions rather than true bird ancestry.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed its lawsuit against the Winklevoss twins’ crypto exchange after investors recovered all assets. Regulators cited the full repayment of Gemini Earn users through the Genesis Global Capital bankruptcy process in 2024. The decision reflects a friendlier crypto approach under Donald Trump, who promoted digital currencies and eased enforcement. The exchange, now called Gemini Space Station, previously faced claims over an illegal lending program frozen in 2022. New York authorities later secured a settlement and banned Gemini lending operations in the state. Gemini debuted strongly on Nasdaq and is valued at $1.14bn, according to…
Coca-Cola is suing Vue after the cinema chain ended a 25-year soft drinks partnership and switched to PepsiCo. Vue operates more than 90 cinemas in the UK and Ireland and 222 sites across eight European countries. The company put its drinks contract out to tender last year and selected PepsiCo in March. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Great Britain filed legal action to recover alleged unpaid debts after the contract ended. It is understood Coca-Cola also owes money to Vue, though Vue did not pursue legal action. Vue’s founder Tim Richards criticised the move, saying the dispute could have been resolved informally.…
Google’s AI Overviews, which generate summaries at the top of search results and are seen by about 2 billion users each month, cite YouTube more often than any medical website when answering health-related queries, according to new research. The study, conducted by the SEO platform SE Ranking, analysed responses to more than 50,000 healthcare-related searches made in Germany. It found that YouTube accounted for 4.43% of all citations used by AI Overviews, making it the single most referenced source. No hospital network, government health authority or academic medical institution came close to that level of citation. Researchers warned this was…
Japan is developing the L0 Series maglev, built by Central Japan Railway Company, which has reached test speeds of 603.5 km/h, making it the fastest train ever. It far exceeds China’s Shanghai Maglev (460 km/h) and Europe’s fastest conventional trains such as the TGV and AGV Italo (around 300–350 km/h). The train will operate on Japan’s new Chuo Shinkansen, cutting Tokyo–Nagoya journeys to about 40 minutes and Tokyo–Osaka to roughly one hour. However, the project has already been delayed and is now expected to open around 2034–35, with costs near £52bn (€60bn). Despite the speed, experts say Europe is unlikely…
Influencers linked to the online “manosphere” are convincing healthy young men that normal changes in energy, mood or libido signal low testosterone, according to a study in Social Science and Medicine. Researchers analysed high-reach posts on TikTok and Instagram, finding testosterone framed as essential to being a “real man” despite routine testing being medically unwarranted for most young men. The authors say this “medicalises masculinity”, creating demand for tests and treatments with limited evidence of benefit. Medical experts note guidelines recommend testing only when clear symptoms or specific clinical reasons exist, warning that unnecessary treatment can carry risks such as…
Plants growing close together can warn one another about stress, helping nearby plants survive conditions that would otherwise cause serious damage. In experiments with thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), researchers grew plants either alone or packed closely so their leaves touched. When exposed to intense light, isolated plants suffered severe damage, while crowded plants coped much better. Within an hour, densely grown plants activated more than 2,000 genes linked to protection against a wide range of stresses, whereas isolated plants showed little extra gene activity. The findings suggest that stressed plants send warning signals to their neighbours. The study showed that…
