Souped-Up CRISPR Gene Editor Replicates and Spreads Like a Virus

https://singularityhub.com/2026/02/17/souped-up-crispr-gene-editor-replicates-and-spreads-like-a-virus/

Low Dose Skin Cancer Treatment Delivers Shockingly Better Results

Good news if there are any recurrences.

https://scitechdaily.com/low-dose-skin-cancer-treatment-delivers-shockingly-better-results/

New Blood Test Predicts When Alzheimer’s Symptoms Will Begin

https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-predicts-when-alzheimers-symptoms-will-begin/

SOLVE EVERYTHING Achieving Abundance by 2035

This is a loooong but eye-opening assessment of the next 9 years. Some things are fairly speculative (like learning about sea currents from whales after cracking their language), but mouth of it is likely.

https://www.solveeverything.org/

An AI Takeover Scenario

This is a sobering assessment of a simple, highly plausible scenario that could easily result in the extinction of humanity through AI (which is improving much faster than Moore’s Law, now doubling performance every four months instead of every 18 months). Never before has humanity faced such a broad range of pathways less than a decade away: virtual utopia versus human extinction.

https://youtu.be/r_rPkQ4Pzis?si=QLMpBxqChoL9EdOT

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good

Encouraging.

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-how-to-switch-off-cancer-genes-for-good/

Caltech Breakthrough Brings Fiber-Optic Performance to Silicon Chips

https://scitechdaily.com/caltech-breakthrough-brings-fiber-optic-performance-to-silicon-chips/

Groundbreaking 2D Nanomaterial Rolls Into a New Dimension

Nanotechnology isn’t in the news much because AI is sucking all the oxygen from the room, but it is still plugging along.

https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-2d-nanomaterial-rolls-into-a-new-dimension/

Tiny Clots Could Be the Missing Piece in Alzheimer’s Puzzle

https://scitechdaily.com/tiny-clots-could-be-the-missing-piece-in-alzheimers-puzzle/

Aging Rewrites the Brain’s Protein Code – and Scientists Just Found the Switch

In mice, so far.

https://scitechdaily.com/aging-rewrites-the-brains-protein-code-and-scientists-just-found-the-switch/

AI Video Just Went TOO FAR... NOT OK!

That’s a stupid, clickbait title, but all of these videos are generated with just prompts. I won’t be surprised if within a year or so I am turning my novels and screenplays into high-quality movies.

https://youtu.be/U3o5cgG105E?si=eQ1qtOWPCBVQ1UZn

AI Reveals How Alzheimer’s Rewires the Brain at the Genetic Level

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-reveals-how-alzheimers-rewires-the-brain-at-the-genetic-level/

Anthropic's New Opus 4.6 is a DREAM for Authors

Previous AI-generated Stories always fell flat, too direct and uninspired, like something by a high school student. But this story reads like something a decent aspiring writer might come up with. The guy narrating this video just talks about it, but you can pause periodically to read the screenshots. Not much in the way of plot, but this is the worst it will ever be from now on.

https://youtu.be/JAADF3Aofao?si=O0tI8sKF1JSUrl7o

A New Alzheimer’s Target Emerges: Blocking One Protein Restores Memory in Mice

https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-alzheimers-target-emerges-blocking-one-protein-restores-memory-in-mice/

Game-Changing Blood Test Could Help Catch Pancreatic Cancer Before It Turns Deadly

Alas, too late for Len.

https://scitechdaily.com/game-changing-blood-test-could-help-catch-pancreatic-cancer-before-it-turns-deadly/

Scientists Discover Natural Compounds With Unexpected Benefits for Skin, Anti-Aging, and Heart Health

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-natural-compounds-with-unexpected-benefits-for-skin-anti-aging-and-heart-health/

Scientists Identify Key Protein That Could Reverse Brain Aging

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-identify-key-protein-that-could-reverse-brain-aging/

AI Just Made 15 Discoveries We Never Expected

Discoveries in AI that will change the near future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4QIHZKEl0

Scientists Trapped 1000 AIs in Minecraft. They Created A Civilization.

This is seriously stunning!

youtube.com/watch?si=UYMMyKOOqUp20dkZ&v=uRDBco-cSK4&feature=youtu.be

Letting AI Talk to Itself Made It Much Smarter

https://scitechdaily.com/letting-ai-talk-to-itself-made-it-much-smarter/

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Early Stage of Alzheimer’s That They Can Stop

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-a-hidden-early-stage-of-alzheimers-that-they-can-stop/

AI Is Now More Creative Than the Average Human

“Our study shows that some AI systems based on large language models can now outperform average human creativity on well-defined tasks,” explains Professor Karim Jerbi. “This result may be surprising — even unsettling — but our study also highlights an equally important observation: even the best AI systems still fall short of the levels reached by the most creative humans.”

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-is-now-more-creative-than-the-average-human/