Humans are still cheaper than AI for most work involving tasks that computer vision could technically automate, MIT researchers found
By Lab Report · Aug 29, 2026
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Many AI reasoning models burn through long chains of intermediate tokens before answering
By Lab Report · Aug 29, 2026
A Phase 3 trial found 87 percent fewer hereditary-angioedema attacks with one gene-editing treatment than with placebo
By Lab Report · Aug 27, 2026
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By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026
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By Lab Report · Aug 27, 2026
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By Lab Report · Aug 26, 2026
Merck and Moderna announced on 19 August 2026 that a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine had succeeded in a Phase 3 trial
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
James Dyson went through 5,127 prototypes while developing his cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner
By The Long View · Aug 22, 2026
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By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
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By The Long View · Aug 19, 2026
At the bottom of the Black Sea, below about 150 metres, the water contains no oxygen at all, and shipwrecks preserved in that dead zone…
By Natural History · Aug 16, 2026
We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a…
By The Long View · Aug 16, 2026