Monday, August 31st, 2026

I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

Post-Soviet Syndrome | Homo Sovieticus

Agency and Agents

#406 - Migraine, cluster headache, and tension headache: symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment | Brian Grosberg, M.D.

China just banned AI companions - Should we?

West-Nil-Virus: Bisher drei Fälle in Österreich

Simulation: the new Scaling Law - Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

Part One of Three: Is Singularity the Inevitable Destination of AI? Who Decides?

Researchers clear major obstacle in genetic engineering of proteins

US-Einwanderungsbehörde will Roboterhunde einsetzen

Für 440 Euro: Dieser Roboter ist eine Ente

ALMA-Teleskop zeigt, wie der sterbende Stern Beteigeuze wirklich aussieht

Sunday, August 30th, 2026

The Biotechnology Age Is Different from the Nuclear Age, or: Welcome to Bioinsecurity

Ribofunkstering (1999-07-17)

A better way to think about Zone 2

Hirntumorzentrum für Kinder im AKH

Engpässe in Tirol bei Gürtelrose-Impfstoff

Longevity Day - International Longevity Summit promo - 4K

Harvard Professor Exposes the Biggest Lie in Silicon Valley: Is AI Built On a Myth? - Steven Pinker

Can a Virus Turn Cancer Against Itself? The Next Era of Cancer Immunotherapy

From Old Drug to New Medicine: The Science of Repurposing Ibudilast | Dr. David Crean, Ph.D.

Cancer BREAKTHROUGH: Personalized Vaccine Passes Phase 3 Trial

Saturday, August 29th, 2026

Krim-Kongo-Infektion in Wien bestätigt

Beyond Brain Energy: Metabolic Flexibility and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Inflammation as an Energy Problem

Bill Gates Changes His Mind on AI

We Crossed The Singularity (And Nobody Noticed)

Fable 5 Plateaus, China's 100x Cheaper Model, NVIDIA's $6B Open-Source Bet | EP #283

Friday, August 28th, 2026

The Joule Cost of Knowing

Why we Age after Youth. Cells have Accomplished their Mission

Expanding our support for scientists

Double-slit experiment on the atomic scale

Secretary-General's press encounter on Ebola Outbreak

Every Guest Who's Been on Theories of Everything

A call for collective action on cyber defense

Unlocking the Math Behind Better Decisions

Quantenlabor für Moleküle entwickelt

Zuckerersatz Xylit könnte das Herz schädigen

Monika Henzinger von Royal Society ausgezeichnet

KI entwirft künstliche Mäuse-DNA

Mammografie erkennt Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen

Bill Gates hat eine neue Pandemie gefunden

China wird die USA nicht als Welthegemon ablösen - China ist anders

Thursday, August 27th, 2026

Build-a-Cell seminar Aleksei Aksimentiev: Building Synthetic Membrane-Embedded Nanomachines

The Death of the Company

Science and the Sacred Depths of Nature

The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical

Can We REVERSE Cancer Drug Resistance? The New Science of Fighting Cancer | Dr. John Yu

Breakthrough Israeli cancer study finds mutations break DNA when it doesn't bend

Reducing the plant protein deficit of the European Union

GLP-1 medications beyond weight loss: how far could their benefits extend?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026

Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious

Why AI Shouldn't Work - And Why It Does Anyway

Morpheus-3D: Structural Diversity-Guided Detection and Localization of Protein Fold Switching

Scientists compared 51 longevity studies to see which aging biomarkers respond most reliably

An AI job boom? Here's what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like

What a Gold Mine in Australia Teaches Us About the Real Future of AI

DNA organization changes in Alzheimer's disease, aging

Shinya Yamanaka Made Cells Young Again. Can That Reverse Aging?

Brain organoid maturation is driven by a lifelike developmental clock

First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

UC Berkeley Conference on Aging and Longevity: Steve Garan, Joan Ziegler, Paul Spiegel, Dobri Kiprov

Deep Origin explores combining AI and physics to improve virtual screening in drug discovery

Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices

Michael Levin: Mind is Everywhere

Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Artificial Biological Intelligence

AI in Healthcare: What's Actually Happening Right Now

Doctors can finally measure the sleep hormone

The Glucose Transporter GLUT3 Controls Regulatory T Cell Function

Das Silicon Valley sieht im Krieg einen Wachstumsmarkt

Bislang größter Chromosomen-Vergleich tierischer Arten zeigt "evolutionäre Autobahnen"

Gehirnscans zeigen: Hunde können Emotionen in menschlichen Gesichtern unterscheiden

Meilenstein bei der Entschlüsselung des Darmmikrobioms

Chemiker*innen erzielen Durchbruch: Moleküle "editieren" statt neu bauen

Evolutionäre Prozesse formen Bakterienpopulationen im menschlichen Darm

Wie Darmbakterien und akuter Stress zusammenhängen

Monday, August 24th, 2026

Viridian Manifesto: Sexy, High-Tech Green Politics (1999-02-06)

#405 ‒ AMA #88: Metabolic liver health: how to assess risk, catch dysfunction early, and prevent or reverse liver disease

Lady Gaga is now an AI-longevity biotech founder

The Ground Truth Institute

Universe Conquering: Non-Zero Sum Revolutionary Improvement of Human Existence

Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"

Ebola: "Es fehlt an grundlegenden Dingen"

NASA: Mikroben können tagelang am Südpol des Mondes überleben

Antarctic bacteria share 'life‑support' genes to survive extreme conditions

Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?

Das Quantencomputer-Mikroskop

Computersimulationen können Planung klinischer Studien verbessern

Alongshan-Virus erstmals in Österreich nachgewiesen

How to make your academic work visible to AI

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

Copying DNA loosens cellular identity

For the first time, AI has designed functional viruses

AI Backpedaling Has Begun

AI did not break scientific publishing, it made the crack impossible to ignore

The "French School" of Computer Science

How chromosomes find their partners

AI trial aims to detect depression in new mothers

Sunday, August 23rd, 2026

Tech's Trust Problem Is a Product Problem

Gum recession: a common oral health issue that often goes unnoticed

Saturday, August 22nd, 2026

Are Mitochondria Freely Flowing Through Your Blood?

When White Hair Regains Its Colour

How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text

Friday, August 21st, 2026

Beyond the Curve: BNG Members Share Their Perspectives

Wie KI-Chatbots emotionale Nähe schaffen

The unseen enemy: navigating antimicrobial resistance

The medical advancements that made us understand our immune system better

Thursday, August 20th, 2026

Longevity Is Being Democratized. Here's One of the Largest Rollouts

Socialism on American Campuses (1999-01-30)

Everything in Tech Gets Faster. The Grid Doesn't

Aging's Competing Paradigms: Another Decade of Investigation into Damage-Driven versus Programmed Theories

China's Humanoids Are Coming to Europe. Partner, Competitor, or Both?

IBM's new modular architecture for cryogenic systems

Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system?

The only reason you'll ever need not to write with AI

A Long Publication List Is Not Necessarily a Strong Research Record

New technology from the University of Graz reveals the hidden properties of tumour cells

Drug that targets an inflammatory enzyme could help prevent lung cancer

Empty Space May Not Be Empty After All: Magnetar Reveals a Bizarre Quantum Effect

More Alzheimer's Research Trouble

AGI and 2027–2030: Are We Already There?

The Computational Kosmoplex: A Principia for Engineers in the Age of AI

"Ich sehe mich nicht als die Person, die vorn steht": Wie diese Deepl-Forscherin 3 Teams leitet

We asked an AI about the future - its answer might scare you

Awareness: Our First Line of Defense Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Rural Kenya

Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial

Stage-Dependent Transmural Redistribution of NET-Associated Structures and Altered DNA Architecture in Acute Appendicitis

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

New drug targets for molecular glue degraders

Wenn Maschinen lernen - tausende KI-Forscher in Bremen

Why World Models Won't Give AI Common Sense: Toward Ontological Stability in AI Governance

Dual-Mechanism Antimicrobial Peptides from a Nature-Inspired Scaffold

A protein–foldamer supramolecular synthon for self-assembled hybrid architectures

AIDO Cell: A General-Purpose Simulator for Cell Biology

Eat less protein to live longer? What the valine study actually said

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026

What Will Humans Do When AI Does Everything Better?

Egotism: The Chief of Human Faults

ChatGPT soll bald die Computer übernehmen

Adipositas als Krankheit der Armen

Astronomers Say They Saw UFOs on the Moon. Let's Have a Look...

What Does It Take to Build a Quantum + AI Project? AWS & MITRE Explain

Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn't Enough

China Tests Quantum Technology in Power Grid

We Have Never Known More About the Immune System - And Never Known Less About What It's Doing Right Now

Why Modular Cryogenics Matter on the Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

The Degree Is Losing Its Monopoly on Proof

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026

Was tun, wenn Medikamente fehlen?

U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman's 2026 Q&A / AMA – Gennady Stolyarov II

A Drug Combination Fights Both Senescence and Cancer

Monday, August 17th, 2026

You're About to Live Like a Millionaire

Post-Humanism and the Meta-Man (1999-04-03)

#404 ‒ Mental health beyond neurotransmitters: the role of hormones in psychiatry, why symptom reduction isn't enough, and the future of psychedelic therapies | Linus Abrams, M.D.

Perspectives on Conscious Evolution

Unexpected Discovery: Life on Earth Had Two Origins, Scientists Find

Inaugural Lectures 2026

ETH Zurich researchers detect a possible fifth force of nature

Sunday, August 16th, 2026

XPRIZE Healthspan finalists: detailed trend analysis

Bringing the Mind into Medicine

Can Perceived Energy Changes Help Us Anticipate Exhaustion?

Why I Won't Use Your Crappy Quantum Programming Language

The War on AI Has Begun

Finally an Explanation for Earth's Continents

Build-a-Cell seminar Ahmed Badran: Programmable Biosynthesis of New-to-Nature Molecules

Neuroscience is in big trouble

Multifactorial trials: taking apart the kitchen sink

Saturday, August 15th, 2026

Warum die Medizin Sie nicht heilen will - und wie sich das gerade erstmals ändert

Total Freedom vs Total Slavery And The Race For AI Supremacy

Your child is not ready

Chinese doctor stuns maths world by cracking decades-old problem using ChatGPT

Shanghai Uni Ranking: Uni Wien unter Top 150

Friday, August 14th, 2026

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself

The mouse lied to you? Why LNPs that shine in rodents keep dying in humans

Neither Dogma nor Taste

Integrated Approaches for Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance in Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

A statistical shape model of the human sternum including cortical bone thickness

Erster Cyberangriff durch KI-Agenten auf Regierung dokumentiert

From the leaf to the gut and back again: using synthetic bacterial communities to trace the fate and influence of phyllosphere bacteria in an Arabidopsis-Pieris brassicae system

Thursday, August 13th, 2026

The 99% Accurate Healthcare AI You Still Shouldn't Deploy

Radical Futurism (1999-07-10)

The Hamiltonian of Drug Discovery

Auto-Magical Living

Die Wissenschaft hinter guten Games

Weltmeister für vertrauenswürdige Software & KI: Riesenerfolg für die TU Wien

"Abnehmpille" vor Markteinführung

Wednesday, August 12th, 2026

The Future is for Everyone

IQ and Intellectual Achievements

The future of health: AI, genomics and the next era of medicine

FDA-Approved AI in Pharma and Medicine: Where We Stand in August 2026

Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation

Umstrittene Coronavirus-Studie zurückgezogen

Medizininformatik-Initiative standardisiert Einwilligung für Obduktionen

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026

Take Nothing on Faith

Why the Intelligence Community Is Betting on Biotechnology | Dr. Jessica Dymond, Ph.D. - In-Q-Tel

The Next Generation of CRISPR Has Arrived | Dr. Trevor Martin - CEO, Mammoth Biosciences

Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

NOT Logic, BIOLogic: Why the AI Revolution Will Birth a Neo-Romanticism

Röntgenstrahlung: Jenseits der Nobelpreis-Grenze

Schlüsselgen für krankhaftes Schwitzen entdeckt

Monday, August 10th, 2026

Giant Rocks from Space (1999-06-19)

#403 - Peptides: separating scientific promise from marketing hype

KI entwirft funktionsfähige Viren

Feinstaub kann Krankheitsschübe auslösen

Hyper-Exponential Breakthroughs

Sunday, August 9th, 2026

Does protein restriction still make sense in modern kidney care?

The Science of Mitoception

Cellular Democracy to Fight Metabolic Disease

Saturday, August 8th, 2026

15-year-old genius Laurent Simons, who earned a PhD in quantum physics, is researching ways to extend human life

Nanosocialism (1999-05-08)

AI-Assisted Technique Allows Scientists to Design New, Functional Genome Editors Beyond What Can Be Found in Nature

AI Agents Are Selecting Actions. Who Remains Accountable?

We are just living in RNA's World

Nuclear Rockets Are Coming

Thursday, August 6th, 2026

MIT-Forscher erstellen mechanische interaktive Objektoberflächen mit 3D-Drucker

Speed-Running Star Trek

Wednesday, August 5th, 2026

The Singularity Is a Story, Not a Prison

Why SpaceX Will Be the First $10 Trillion Company

Tuesday, August 4th, 2026

Alien Abduction in America (1998-12-19)

Non Carbon Persons Extending the Hedonistic Imperative Beyond Biology - David Pearce

That's why China is 50 years ahead of us

No protein is an island

Betting on Biology: Part I

Build-a-Cell seminar Rafael Lira: Lipid flip flop required for sustained growth of synthetic cells

After Comparing Jewish DNA to Every Ancient Civilization - Only One People Matched

Sunday, August 2nd, 2026

Zero coronary calcium does not mean zero cardiovascular risk

New Cryo Records: Longest-Supercooled and Largest-Vitrified Organs Transplanted

Saturday, August 1st, 2026

Space Policy and Apocalypse Watch (1998-10-17)

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