Robin Macular Degeneration AI
FutureHouse’s Robin AI autonomously identified ripasudil as a novel treatment for dry macular degeneration — the leading cause of blindness — in 2.5 months.
AI & Scientific Discovery
Synthesin AI Antibiotic
McMaster’s SyntheMol-RL explored 46 billion compounds and designed synthecin, a novel antibiotic effective against drug-resistant staph.
Beyond the Grid
In 1946, Paul Erdős asked how many point pairs can sit exactly one unit apart. For 80 years, mathematicians had the wrong answer. Then an AI found the right one.
The Parallel Mind
Every major language model generates text one token at a time. Gemini Diffusion generates entire blocks at once, hitting 1,479 tokens/sec. A paradigm shift.
The Organism That Broke the Code
A pond protist at Oxford uses a genetic code that breaks biology’s most universal rule. Two stop codons repurposed to code for amino acids. The science and what it means.
Sixty Seconds
Keytruda now takes 60 seconds to deliver. How the NHS is rolling out the subcutaneous formulation, how checkpoint immunotherapy works, and what this means for access.
What are Xenobots?
Xenobots are described as living robots made from frog cells. That framing is reasonable. It is also wrong in ways that matter — and the accurate version is stranger and more important.
The Income Floor
hat happens when machines do all the work? The science and history of Universal Basic Income — from 1795 England to the world’s largest experiment in Kenya.
The Hollow Mind
Without hormones, pain, gender, or the subconscious — what would a superintelligent mind actually be? The neuroscience of what makes us us, and what silicon cannot replace.
The Recursive Moment
Recursive self-improvement is live. Three AI systems now rewrite their own code. The last frontier before AGI is embodiment. And the clock is running.
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