Why AI won’t fix Britain’s supply chains
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 28-Oct-2026 04:16 ET (28-Oct-2026 08:16 GMT/UTC)
Businesses hoping AI will solve their supply chain problems risk wasting their investment unless they first fix weaknesses in their data, skills and management, according to new research.
Researchers developed physics-embedded inverse learning (PEIL), which uses a fixed, differentiable physical solver to turn signal-recovery error into supervision for parameter estimation without parameter labels. In high-mobility wireless tests, PEIL generalized to unseen channel profiles and speeds without retraining and matched a parameter-supervised baseline using one twentieth as many training samples. PEIL was also used to estimate coil sensitivity maps for parallel MRI.
Most local anesthetics used in medicine only last eight to 12 hours or a day tops. Now Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have formulated a more effective slow-release injectable drug delivery system that achieved pain-numbing anesthetic effects lasting two to three weeks in rats compared to a commercial formulation lasting about four to eight hours. Given that nerve blocks in humans tend to work longer than in rats, this advancement, published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, could blow the effective time of currently used anesthetics out of the water and have implications for other types of pain.
A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first in the quantum-physics field.
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have tested a compact, flexible, and cost-effective floor slab system for multi-story timber buildings. The “UniversalTimberSlab” is scheduled to be installed soon at the “Zukunftsforum” in the German town of Oberkochen.
Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Sciences; DOI 10.29026/oes.2026.260023.
Sheep grazing, rather than honey bees, could be the bigger threat to wild pollinators on Scotland’s moorlands, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The research, published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology, has found that grazing in spring can remove much of the nectar emerging bumblebees need, while commercial honey bee hives introduced during the summer heather flowering period have a much smaller impact.
Announcing a new publication from Opto-Electronic Sciences; DOI 10.29026/oes.2026.260029.