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Ryan Lanham
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Technological change and acceleration... especially AI and medicine.
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Trump wants Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to Beijing. Washington’s China hawks are pushing back
Trump wants Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to Beijing. Washington’s China hawks are pushing back
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to approve Nvidia to ship some of its more powerful AI chips to China is ruffling the feathers of Washington's China hawks.
cnb.cx
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Watch a cancer cell evade capture
By moving around, some cancer cells force attacking immune cells to just nibble at the edges

www.sciencenews.org/article/canc...
Watch a cancer cell evade capture
By moving around, some cancer cells force attacking immune cells to just nibble at the edges rather than engulf them completely.
www.sciencenews.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Video Matting, and thus auto-film creation, takes a significant step forward:

arxiv.org/pdf/2601.142...
arxiv.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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CNBC's Inside India newsletter: India and EU eye 'mother of all deals' amid U.S. tensions. But New Delhi needs a pact with Washington
CNBC's Inside India newsletter: India and EU eye 'mother of all deals' amid U.S. tensions. But New Delhi needs a pact with Washington
Deal with U.S. remains crucial for India's economy.
cnb.cx
January 22, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Can 3D printing match natural teeth?
A JAC study shows DLP flashing prints zirconia crowns with graded color and translucency for a realistic look with high precision and strength.
🔗https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2025.9221140
#AdvancedCeramics #3DPrinting #SciOpen #TUP @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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#EVs are expensive, and a key reason is their large #batteries. But a new process called dry coating achieves up to 40 percent lower cell-production cost. spectrum.ieee.org/dry-coating-...
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Scientists at Stanford have made considerable progress toward a regenerative cartilage strategy against arthritis:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Inhibition of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase promotes cartilage regeneration
Aging or injury to the joints can lead to cartilage degeneration and osteoarthritis (OA), for which there are limited effective treatments. We found that expression of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydro...
www.science.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Another solid open-source model from China - STEP3-VL-10B is a 10B-parameter vision language model

huggingface.co/collections/...
Step3-VL-10B - a stepfun-ai Collection
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Novo Nordisk Foundation gives $850M to nonprofit to help commercialize research in Europe
BioInnovation Institute aims to cultivate stronger culture of company creation

www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/n...
Novo Nordisk Foundation gives $850M to nonprofit to help commercialize research in Europe
The Novo Nordisk Foundation announced it was giving an additional $850 million to an institute to help commercialize biomedical research in Europe.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Wastewater metaproteomics: tracking microbial and human protein biomarkers academic.oup.com/ism...

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#proteomics #prot-paper
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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In a world first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health and @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social , has successfully performed a coronary artery bypass (a normally open-heart surgery) without cutting the chest wall.
#EmoryProud #EmoryMade
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Researchers achieve the first minimally invasive coronary artery bypass
For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.
www.nih.gov
January 10, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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This is a fascinating bit of research diving into why some octopuses have larger brains than others. #science #intelligence #evolution
It was great talking to @michael.muthukrishna.com, @pkatz.bsky.social and Robin Dunbar about this for @newscientist.com
🧪 🦑 🧠

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests something else is going on
www.newscientist.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A 60 million dollar public private drug discovery partnership started called AI Ligand involving UCL in Britain.

www.miragenews.com/e60m-ai-drug...
€60m AI Drug Discovery Project Launched
A new global public-private partnership using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate drug discovery is launching with UCL as one of the lead
www.miragenews.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
How non-programmers are using Claude to solve important statistical and plotting problems for their writings--pundits, economists, etc.

www.understandingai.org/p/how-shifti...
How shifting risk to users makes Claude Code more powerful
People are discovering that Claude Code isn’t just for code.
www.understandingai.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
ChatGPT maker OpenAI will launch a physical device this year:

qz.com/openai-annou...
OpenAI 'on track' to launch a physical device this year
The device would sit on your desk or travel in your pocket, quietly absorbing context and answering questions like a ChatGPT-powered companion
qz.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM
A New Tool dedicated to building "smart" or "AI" agents for your workflow:

dopamine.chat?ref=producth...
Dopamine - AI Agent Platform
Build intelligent AI agents with ease. Create, deploy, and manage AI agents for your business needs.
dopamine.chat
January 20, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form of deep sleep
Can a severed brain remain conscious?
Consciousness researchers studying “islands of awareness” have found that disconnected brains likely sink into a strange form of deep sleep
www.scientificamerican.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM