Other interesting news for 5.8.26

Other interesting news for 5.8.26

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 8, 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.

Oxford team achieves first-ever ‘quadsqueezing’ quantum interaction

A toy model to understand how AI learns

Green hydrogen from just sun and water

From cancer to Alzheimer’s: Engineered immune cells reduce plaques in the brain

New kind of CRISPR could treat viral infection and cancer by shredding sick cells’ DNA

Illinois Grainger findings challenge traditional neuroscience

Introducing ecotech, nature’s innovation accelerator

With large DNA fragment assembly, scientists can design microbes that produce countless complex products

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

For the first time, the direction of neural signals in the brain has been determined non-invasively from neuronal spontaneous activity using functional MRI

Stanford researchers combine five metals to build a better nanocrystal

KAIST: AI learns to say “I’m not sure” … reducing overconfidence and improving reliability​

Cal Poly research shows time-varying magnetic fields can engineer exotic quantum matter

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

Human language is biased towards safety, major study reveals, challenging 70-year scientific consensus

A new artificial intelligence tool that can generate millions of new molecules

Understanding how lasers can rapidly magnetize fusion plasmas

Reading genetic activity from living cells without destroying them

Scientists program materials just by spinning them

Light reveals the invisible: AI decode optical fiber “growth rings” for perfect shapes

Twisting atom thin materials reveals new way to save computing energy

Aston University finds new way to train robots for real-world tasks using AI

Scientists use ultrasound to destroy influenza A and COVID-19 viruses without damaging human cells

HKU research team to develop “Short-wavelength infrared spectrometer” for China’s Tianwen-3 mission, advancing the search for signs of life on Mars

Octopus-inspired underwater gripper with rapid stiffness tuning and robot enabling upward transport

When nerve cells form new connections: approach to treating spinal cord injuries developed

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