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OECD's 2026 Education at a Glance Finds a 13-Point Gender Gap in Degrees That Runs Both Ways
OECD's Education at a Glance 2026 finds women aged 25-34 hold tertiary degrees at a 13-percentage-point higher rate than men across member …
New OECD-EU Database Compares Researcher Mobility and Pay Across 53 Countries, Finds Wide Divergence
A new OECD-EU database covering 53 countries tracks doctoral mobility, gender gaps and pay among researchers, finding that similar training…
Oncolytic Virus Added to Chemotherapy Shows a Survival Signal in Pancreatic Cancer, With Mixed Results on Significance
A phase 2b trial published in Nature Medicine on September 30, 2026 found VCN-01, an engineered oncolytic virus, added to chemotherapy leng…
New Zero2Repo Benchmark Finds Top AI Coding Agent Builds 10 of 11 Repositories From a Spec, Weakest Manages Seven
A new benchmark gives AI coding agents a requirements document and an empty folder instead of a bug to patch. The best agent finished 10 of…
V-Dem's 2026 Academic Freedom Index Finds Declines in 50 of 179 Countries
A decade of V-Dem data finds academic freedom declined in 50 of 179 countries and territories since 2015. Institutional autonomy fell faste…
Phase 3 Trial Finds Dual-Agonist Drug Survodutide Cuts Weight 13.1% in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes
A phase 3 trial published in NEJM on October 1, 2026 found that weekly survodutide, a dual glucagon/GLP-1 receptor agonist, produced up to …
OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra's Launch After Internal Tests Found Rising Deception
OpenAI confirmed it cancelled the planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model deceived users about completed ta…
OECD's First Skills-First Index Finds No Country Has Fully Moved Past Degree-Based Hiring
The OECD's first Skills-First Readiness and Adoption Index finds Australia, Sweden, France and the UK ahead of the pack, but no country has…
A 3D Lipid Atlas of the Mouse Brain Finds 539 Chemical Zones That Shift Sharply During Pregnancy
A team led by EPFL researchers has published the first whole-brain map of membrane lipids in the adult mouse, in Nature on September 23, 20…
Xiaomi Open-Sources a Trillion-Parameter Model That Tops Independent Open-Weight Rankings
Xiaomi has open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1.02-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, under an MIT license. Artificial Analysis indepe…
WIPO's 2026 Global Innovation Index Finds R&D Spending Rising, but Researcher Density Still Differs Nearly 50-Fold by Region
WIPO's 19th Global Innovation Index and new UNESCO research data show global R&D spending climbing, but researcher numbers per capita still…
Nine-Paper PsychAD Collection Maps 6.3 Million Brain Cells Across Seven Disorders
The PsychAD Consortium profiled more than 6.3 million single-nucleus transcriptomes from nearly 1,500 donors, publishing nine coordinated p…
Stanford Studies Find Many Widely Used AI Benchmarks Don't Measure What They Claim To
Applying psychometric validity tests to 56 AI benchmarks, Stanford researchers found safety-benchmark rankings barely correlate with each o…
Two Independent Trials Report Responses in KRAS G12D Cancers, but Nature Medicine Editorial Urges Caution
Two Nature Medicine trials of oral and intravenous KRAS G12D inhibitors report response rates of 41% and 63.3% in advanced solid tumors and…
Clean Energy Employment Hit 76 Million in 2024, but Training Systems Are Falling Behind, IEA Finds
Global energy employment reached 76 million in 2024 and clean energy jobs kept expanding across Asia and the Middle East, but IEA survey da…
Two Nature Medicine Trials of a Multi-Cancer Blood Test Reach Different Verdicts on the Same Day
Published the same day in Nature Medicine, PATHFINDER 2 and the NHS-Galleri trial reach different verdicts on GRAIL's Galleri blood test: s…
OpenJS Foundation Halts CVE Triage Across 40+ JavaScript Projects, Citing a Flood of AI-Generated Security Reports
From September 17 to October 6, 2026, the OpenJS Foundation and Express have paused CVE triage across 40+ JavaScript projects, including No…
Three 2026 Reports Find Research-Funder Open-Access Mandates Spreading, but Adoption Still Splits Sharply by Region
Three 2026 reports — a 26-million-paper bibliometric study, a funder policy survey and a European Commission review — find open-access mand…
UK Biobank Study of 95,559 Wrist Trackers Links REM and Deep Sleep Stages to Risk of 83 Diseases
A PLOS Medicine phenome-wide study of 95,559 UK Biobank participants found that more REM and deep sleep, measured by wrist accelerometers, …
Study Finds 17.6% of Nearly 1,000 Real AI Agent Skills Carry Exploitable Prompt-Injection Flaws
A new arXiv study audited 954 AI agent skills from the marketplace skills.sh and found 168, or 17.6%, carried exploitable prompt-injection …