Other interesting news for 5.15.26

Other interesting news for 5.15.26

This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.
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Giulio Prisco
May 15, 2026
2 min read

This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.

New AI tool developed by Stowers Institute and Helmholtz Munich scientists predicts how cells choose their future — helping uncover hidden drivers of development

A roadmap for safer, explainable protein-design AI

Governments may shape what AI chatbots say by shaping the web they learn from, new Nature study finds

SNU researchers developed “intelligent artificial muscle” integrating sensing and actuation

Printed oxygen "highways" shatter the 2D transistor speed limit

Implantable living materials autonomously deliver therapeutics using contained engineered bacteria

From touch to vision: A bioinspired multisensory framework brings human-like perception to robots

Reasoning like a human: New prompting strategy boosts AI accuracy in healthcare advice

Multi-prior physics-enhanced neural network for high-fidelity arbitrary-path optical particle manipulation

Flexible neural sheet device reaches deep cortical regions without brain penetration

Metasurface spectral AI chip diagnoses dry eye–related gland disorder with 96% accuracy-Ultrafast “in-sensor computing” captures molecular fingerprints of meibomian gland tissue in milliseconds

Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers

Gravitational wave detectors can now ‘auto-tune’ their signals

Providing a cellular ‘all-clear’ signal to resume protein synthesis

Powerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light

DeepAFM: A deep learning method to decode protein motion

Machines with the ability to ‘feel’ currently in development as we enter next frontier of AI

Aston University and STFC Hartree Center announce strategic partnership to advance neuromorphic computing in the UK

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist

Scientists discover surprising new way to control light

Putting neural networks to work in nonlinear optics

How to build a discovery machine

Rewiring rumination: A targeted brain-based approach to depression

AI generates first complete models of proteins in motion

Noninvasive brain-computer interfaces are bringing robotic assistance closer to everyday life

“Even recognizing puddles at night”... KAIST surpasses the limits of autonomous driving​

Two spacecraft observed both hemispheres of interstellar comet simultaneously

Study unveils precise way to rewire brain circuits to boost resilience to stress

Centimeter-scale piezo robots offer new reconfiguration solutions

Jellyfish-inspired ultrafast and versatile magnetic soft robots for biomedical applications

AI and supercomputer simulations reveal how a bacterial energy-converting enzyme pumps sodium ions, paving the way for new antibiotics

Method calculates more efficient route between Earth and Moon than any previously described

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