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A video deepfake detector used 143 times less computing power than existing models, achieving near-perfect accuracy on a test library of 1,000 online videos containing deepfakes. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI deepfakes are getting more realistic. Scientists developed a better way to spot them

Hundreds of the nation's computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an...

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Invika halted cancer progression in 16 of 27 patients given the optimal dose in an early trial that included cancers resistant to standard immunotherapy. @NIHforHealth @NatureMedicine medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

A precision T-cell therapy stalls treatment-resistant cancers in clinical trial

Early results of the first clinical trial to evaluate the drug invikafusp alfa (invika) in humans indicate that the treatment may be capable of managing cancers that have rebuffed most other interv...

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The 2026 El Niño is on track to be bigger than the powerful 1997–98 event, with warm, elevated Pacific waters reaching South America—but winter impacts remain uncertain. @NASA phys.org/news/2026-10-el-nio…

El Niño then and now

El Niño is part of a natural climate pattern that occurs roughly every two to seven years, bringing warmer-than-normal water to parts of the equatorial Pacific. The most recent very strong El Niño...

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Psilocybin triggered new brain connections in mice without head twitching, a proxy for hallucinogenic activity—separating structural rewiring from that behavioral signal. @NatureNeuro medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

How psilocybin reshapes brain circuits

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms," reshapes neural connections in the brain.

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A DNA-programmed material builds its own motors and moves without intact living cells, with genetic instructions setting whether its flow persists, stops or repeatedly speeds up and slows down. @NatureMaterials phys.org/news/2026-10-dna-ce…

DNA programs a cell-free material to build its own motors and move

Researchers have created a material that manufactures the proteins responsible for cell movement, without needing intact living cells. By embedding cell-free gene expression into a thin sheet of...

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An anode-free lithium coin cell retained 90% capacity after 200 cycles with a silver-based additive that helps stabilize its internal interfaces. @hkust @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

No lithium metal anode to start? Silver-based additive helps stabilize next-generation batteries

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a dynamic integrated interface engineering strategy that enhances the energy density and stability of...

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Children eating more ultraprocessed foods showed stronger brain responses to appetizing food images—responses linked to greater body fat one year later, though cause and effect remain unproven. @KeckSchool_USC @jamanetworkopen medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods show stronger brain responses to appetizing foods

Children who eat more ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) show stronger responses in the brain's reward network when viewing images of appetizing foods—and these brain responses are linked to increases in...

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Changing conversation partners barely softened political divisions in simulated AI networks, while prompts to be receptive to opposing views cut the polarization score by 11.8%. @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-age…

AI agents can form political camps—and changing their conversation partners does little to soften...

Give AI agents political positions, ask them to defend their views and persuade one another, and let them decide which contacts to keep. This recent experiment, published in Nature Communications,...

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Expanding a quantum cat state's environment from one qubit to eight progressively suppressed interference revivals during the experiment's observation window. @physrevlett @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-10-quantu…

Experiment shows when quantum 'cat' states stop bouncing back

Quantum systems can occupy superpositions, quantum states that combine different possibilities. For instance, a microwave field can be prepared in a superposition of an empty state and a state that...

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The world’s first touchscreen built into a garment displays video on a flexible sleeve, with light output and touch response nearly unchanged after 50 detergent washes. @NUSingapore @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Researchers thread the world's first touchscreen into a garment

Researchers at the National University of Singapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them...

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Blocking a protein in unstable immune cells reversed immunotherapy-linked inflammation in mice, targeting a fragility also seen in patients with severe side effects. @CellCellPress medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Study identifies key drivers of microbiome-linked cancer immunotherapy side effect

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh uncovered the unstable immune cells that can cause up to 40% of immunotherapy patients to experience serious side effects and showed that diet and microbi...

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Pheidole soldier ants can have smaller antennae than workers despite much larger heads and bodies—a break in the usual link between body size and body-part size. @PNASNews phys.org/news/2026-10-ants-b…

Ants break a basic rule of biology to help them adapt to new environments

A new study led by researchers in the Eco-Evo-Devo lab at the University of Ottawa finds that ants can decouple antenna size from both head and body size as they develop into different social castes,...

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Global warming may have halted a glacial period already underway: an Arctic ice cap began expanding about 2,000 years ago, then started shrinking in the 1960s. @columbiaclimate @sciencemagazine phys.org/news/2026-10-global…

Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests

Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the...

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BCG-vaccinated mice were about five times more likely to show reduced brain tau deposits—a dementia hallmark—with a possible role for trained immunity still being explored. @ScienceAdvances medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Tuberculosis vaccine's link to reduced dementia risk gains mechanistic support

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a vaccine widely used to prevent tuberculosis and treat bladder cancer, may also have properties that reduce the risk for dementia, according to new findings in a...

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AI-assisted detection of PHP flaws pushed some European and U.S. websites temporarily offline as operators rushed to fix vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute code remotely. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Some websites go dark as operators address an AI-detected flaw in a web programming language

An AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language led governments and other organizations in Europe and the U.S. to take their websites offline temporarily Wednesday...

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Quantum interference has trapped electron waves in a metal for the first time, binding them near atomic defects in Pd₅AlI₂ despite available escape paths. @columbia @NaturePhysics @sciencemagazine phys.org/news/2026-10-quantu…

Quantum interference traps electron waves in metal for first time

Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those waves could be trapped in place. Writing today in Science a century...

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A weaker, slower brain signal may link several schizophrenia symptoms: people with the largest signal differences tended to have worse timing difficulties, more disorganized speech and more severe symptoms. @mcgillu @ScienceAdvances medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Imaging study links several schizophrenia symptoms to a single brain signal

Schizophrenia is often described as a list of separate problems. People may perceive the world differently, act on their surroundings differently or speak in ways that are hard to follow. A new study...

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A solar-storm X-ray pattern has been observed around a black hole for the first time, providing evidence of magnetic eruptions near the supermassive black hole in NGC 3783. @AAS_Office phys.org/news/2026-10-black-…

Black hole observations uncover evidence of solar storm–like magnetic eruptions

Technion researchers have presented evidence for the existence of solar-storm-like outbursts near supermassive black holes, which can be a million times larger than the sun or more. The phenomenon...

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Adults with obesity lost about 2.2 kg more with fasting plus exercise than with standard care over 12 weeks, but the weight difference was no longer detectable a year after the program. @NatureComms medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Intermittent fasting plus exercise boosts fat loss and fitness in 12-week obesity trial

A research team led by the Joint University Institute for Sport and Health (iMUDS) at the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Granada Institute for Biomedical Research and the Biomedical...

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A hands-free system recreates scents from data sent online, with 14 volunteers identifying individual smells correctly about 73% of the time in lab tests. @ScienceAdvances techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Something smells different as scientists send aromas over the internet

One day, you may be able to easily smell what you are looking at when browsing online. Sending smells over the internet has long been a dream, and while it may seem far-fetched, researchers have now...

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