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Nature Index 2026 Finds China's Research Output Up 22% in a Year as Japan and South Korea Also Outpace the West
Springer Nature's 2026 Research Leaders tables show China's weighted research Share up 22.4% year over year, the only top-ten country with double-digit growth. Japan and South Korea grew close to 10%, ahead of the US, Germany and UK, as the Index widens to applied and social sci…
ICML 2026's 24,000-Paper Trial Finds LLM Review Policies Barely Move Outcomes, but a Third of Reviewers Broke Them
A randomized experiment across ICML 2026, covering 24,661 submissions, found that banning versus permitting limited LLM use in peer review …
Government R&D Budgets Fall in Real Terms as Funding Tilts Toward Defence, OECD and EU Data Show
OECD and Eurostat data for 2024–2025 show government R&D budgets shrinking in real terms across most member countries, with defence researc…
A Common Epilepsy Drug Is Linked to Longer Survival in an Almost Untreatable Childhood Brain Tumor
A retrospective Nature Medicine study (Sept. 17, 2026) led by Stanford Medicine finds children with diffuse midline glioma survived longer …
Two 2026 Surveys Show AI Use in Higher Education Nearly Doubling, With Guidance Lagging Behind
Two 2026 datasets — an OECD teacher survey and a 35-country higher-education poll — show AI use surging past the training, assessment redes…
DeepMind Publishes Precomputed Predictions for All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Changes
Google DeepMind has published precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter human DNA changes in a new, searchable Alpha…