Using AI to analyze nearly 150,000 Reddit posts, Penn researchers identified patterns in self-reported symptoms among people claiming to take gray-market versions of retatrutide, the next-generation GLP-1 drug currently in clinical trials, demonstrating how AI-assisted analysis of social media could help identify emerging drug safety signals that warrant further investigation.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville researchers are using artificial intelligence to improve safety analysis for advanced nuclear reactors. The project will develop faster, more accurate methods for identifying potential operational risks, helping engineers evaluate next-generation reactor designs and support the safe expansion of nuclear energy.

ExpressPath, a new licensing model for Harvard engineering, medical device, and software technologies, is helping academic innovators turn promising ideas into real-world products faster and more efficiently.

Under a partnership, the Simons Foundation, Anthropic and OpenAI will commit $15 million in combined funding and resources. The foundation will manage and award the funding, including through an open call for proposals, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use. Anthropic and OpenAI will also provide AI tools and computing resources to researchers supported by the Simons Foundation, extending beyond mathematics to include basic science.

Around 500 researchers, farmers, policymakers and citizens gathered in Coimbra, Portugal, from 7 to 11 September 2026 for the Soils for Europe Conference, organised by the EU-funded SOLO project with almost 40 co-organising projects. Held as the EU’s first soil health law takes effect, the conference looked back on five years of Mission Soil and explored how research can be turned into policy and practice.