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How smartphones and AI are reshaping our bodies and minds
NEWS | 30 May 2026
You know, I’ll talk about our hands but also our minds in kind of really major ways. And I think of that as really kind of continuous with all kinds of writing, right? Like, there’s something really, really wrong with them. What’s going on here?” I mean, it’s very exciting, until I start to really think about it, and then I get a little bit worried. You know, they’re ironically the ones who might need to use captioning more, but they aren’t represented in it.

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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
NEWS | 30 May 2026
On Thursday the White House released long-anticipated draft regulations that, if enacted, would give political appointees the final word on federal research grants and other funding across government agencies. The new rules would mandate political appointees at scientific agencies to sign off on all research awards for compliance with presidential priorities, including those on race and gender. Many experts noted that political appointees at agencies such as the NIH, which funds tens of thousands of research grants every year, may not be sufficiently able to judge grant proposals on their scientific merit. The new rules would allow for grant “termination based on the discretion of the Federal agency,” according to the proposal. The proposed rewrite of federal grant rules would not affect the overhead cost rates for research grants, which the administration had previously tried to cap at 15 percent last year—an effort that was rejected by Congress.

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Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment
NEWS | 30 May 2026
This location is the main fabrication plant for quantum computing company Rigetti Computing in California; each refrigeration tank contains one of Rigetti’s top-of-the-line quantum processing units. Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment: Scientists hope that in the next few decades they’ll be able to scale up today’s quantum systems to the size needed to make real breakthroughs and finally beat classical machines at useful tasks. Similarly, it’s not enough to say a quantum computer is a computer that takes advantage of quantum phenomena in its operation. Tunable superpositions such as this one are what make a quantum computer quantum. Although there is no way to completely halt decoherence, there is a way to compensate for some errors within quantum computers by using another celebrated result in theoretical quantum computing: quantum error correction.

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Which problems will quantum computers solve—and when?
NEWS | 30 May 2026
“It’s an exciting time because people are fielding quantum computers with hundreds and thousands of qubits,” says Nobel Prize–winning quantum physicist John Martinis, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-founder of quantum hardware company Qolab. So what will quantum computers really be good for—and when? Experts say we are still years away from quantum computers able to handle practical applications that classical computers cannot, which might include breaking common data-encryption schemes, simulating quantum processes for fundamental physics, and designing better drugs and materials. Ekert, however, remains cautious about the longer-term benefits of using quantum AI processors to analyze classical datasets. Where quantum computing and machine learning are already being combined most helpfully, Ekert argues, is in physicists’ use of classical AI to design quantum error-correcting codes and better quantum hardware.

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SPONSORED | 30 May 2026
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The Riemann hypothesis is a million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve
NEWS | 30 May 2026
“So you really don’t care whether the Riemann hypothesis gets solved by a human or AI?” I asked. “An AI that can prove the Riemann hypothesis is not one I’d want to meet.” —Andrew Sutherland, M.I.T. Yet despite the handsome heap of rewards stacked behind it, progress toward the Riemann hypothesis is scarce. The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond to the physical world. To Maynard, the lack of any clear route to solving the Riemann hypothesis is part of what makes the problem so important.

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NASA’s Artemis II mission launched four astronauts to the moon
NEWS | 30 May 2026
By the time they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, the crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission had flown farther from Earth than anyone else ever had. At 6:35 P.M. EDT on April 1, Artemis II blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. And the first step in making that happen is Artemis II.”Both Apollo 8 and Artemis II were launched in eras of remarkable global turmoil. Propellant leaks and other issues with ground systems and the SLS rocket delayed Artemis II by months. The crew of Artemis II waves to family and friends shortly before boarding their Orion spacecraft atop the SLS rocket.

Breaking:
NASA’s Artemis era may finally solve three major moon mysteries
NEWS | 30 May 2026
If current projections are to be believed, the Artemis IV mission will put astronauts on the moon in 2028. “You really need to understand whether you have threats to long-term infrastructure from seismic activity.”To understand the moon’s geological heartbeat, samples, too, will be vital. A view of the moon’s crater-pocked farside, based on observations from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the possible presence of water-ice deposits (blue) at the dark floors of craters around the moon’s south pole. And NASA’s next-generation moon buggy—or Lunar Terrain Vehicle—will do something similar while either being piloted by astronauts or autonomously navigating the surface.

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Surprising ways that sunlight might heal autoimmune diseases
NEWS | 30 May 2026
Now scientists are hoping to decipher the pathways through which UV light causes the immune system to back down from its alarm state. This finding was a breakthrough in our understanding of how skin cancer develops, but it also seemed nonsensical from an evolutionary perspective. How could it possibly be beneficial for our immune system to relax in the presence of a common carcinogen? PLE sufferers develop itchy rashes and plaques after sun exposure, but they are less likely to develop skin cancer. Skin cancer was known to be caused by sunlight, but Apperly suggested that something about the sun was also conferring protection against internal cancers.

This Just In:
New treatments can free kids from the deadly threat of peanut allergy
NEWS | 30 May 2026
“One out of 10 individuals in the U.S., more than 33 million, has a food allergy,” says Sung Poblete, CEO of Food Allergy Research and Education, an advocacy organization. Based on those results, and anticipating more data, the FDA immediately approved Xolair as a protection against peanut allergy. The results revealed that the occurrence of peanut allergy in Israeli kids was one-tenth the rate among U.K. ones. The babies were tested for preexisting peanut allergy, and if they were negative, they went into one of two groups. But “an allergist isn’t going to see somebody who doesn’t have peanut allergy already,” NIH’s Fulkerson says.

Today:
How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
NEWS | 30 May 2026
Numerous celebrities and vitamin companies raised hopes that vitamin D could be a panacea, says JoAnn Manson, an endocrinologist and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and a lead investigator on some of the biggest vitamin D studies to date. These observational studies looked for associations between vitamin D levels and a particular health issue or compared vitamin D status among people with a condition and those without. Holick made a name for himself espousing the health-promoting powers of vitamin D and wrote a book called The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems. Given the VITAL trial’s large size and wide scope, many vitamin D researchers hoped it would put many of the purported benefits of vitamin D supplements to rest. Manson is quick to caution that more isn’t necessarily better when it comes to vitamin D. “Vitamin D is essential to good health, but we require only small to moderate amounts,” she says.

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Personalized mRNA vaccines will revolutionize cancer treatment—if federal funding cuts don’t doom them
NEWS | 30 May 2026
Personalized melanoma vaccines could be available as early as 2028, with mRNA vaccines for other cancers to follow. Another threat to personalized mRNA vaccines for cancer was coming into focus: mounting federal hostility to vaccines. After obtaining positive results for the mRNA vaccine for melanoma, Sahin agreed to partner with Balachandran to develop an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Lennard Lee, an adviser to the U.K.’s National Health Service overseeing the rollout of clinical trials for cancer vaccines, says the pandemic gave regulators there a running start on trials for mRNA cancer vaccines. By May 2025 another threat to personalized mRNA vaccines for cancer was coming into focus: mounting federal hostility to vaccines.

World:
New nasal vaccines offer stronger protection from COVID, flu, and more—no needle needed
NEWS | 30 May 2026
A few nasal vaccines have been introduced in the past, but they’ve been beset by problems. But nasal vaccines still face technical hurdles, such as how best to deliver them into the body. This type of caution is one reason a COVID nasal vaccine approved in India hasn’t been adopted by the U.S. or other countries. Although many of the new vaccine strategies are aimed at COVID, nasal vaccines for other diseases are already being planned. But for nasal vaccines, Iwasaki says, “we don’t have a standard way to collect nasal mucus or measure antibody titers.

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SPONSORED | 30 May 2026
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Current Events:
Are humans really selfish? Rewriting the rules of civilization
NEWS | 30 May 2026
You say you aim to “change the operating system of the entire world.” Why don’t we start with what’s wrong with our current operating system? Lent: Sure, so what does it mean to change the operating system of our world? What do I even mean when we talk about our operating system? Feltman: So tell me about where you found inspiration for, you know, this sort of new operating system that you’re writing about. As human beings we did evolve in this different way, to be cooperative and to work together.