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Tyrosine lifespan study in men draws scrutiny over supplement claims
A tyrosine lifespan study in men involving more than 270,000 participants has found that higher blood levels of the amino acid tyrosine are associated with a shorter life expectancy in men, while no equivalent effect was observed in women. The research, published in Aging-US and subsequently covered by the University of Georgia Department of Genetics, used both observational data and…
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Indonesia Peat Fires 2026: Underground Blazes Test Post-2015 Reforms
Indonesia’s peat fires in 2026 are spreading earlier and more aggressively than most recent seasons, with a strengthening El Niño accelerating drought conditions across fire-prone regions and driving flames underground into peat deposits that can smoulder for months. The scale is already raising questions about whether the protective measures put in place after the catastrophic 2015 season are equal to…
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Earth ionosphere dark matter search tightens axion limits a hundredfold
An Earth ionosphere dark matter search conducted by researchers from Kyoto University, Hiroshima University, and Nihon University claims to have placed constraints on ultralight axions roughly 100 times tighter than the previous best result from a ground-based experiment, while also turning up several unexplained signals that could, the team says, have a dark matter origin. The findings were published across…
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RNA polymerase shown to read eight-letter genetic alphabet in UC San Diego studies
A key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four-letter code used by all known life, researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated in two studies published this year. The claim is specific and the methodology is detailed: the team combined biochemical experiments with high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy to capture structural images of RNA…
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Plasmalogen sea squirt study claims to reverse brain ageing in mice
A plasmalogen sea squirt study published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences on 23 February 2022 reports that dietary supplements derived from an edible marine animal improved memory, reduced brain inflammation, and produced visible physical changes in aged mice, findings the research team believes could eventually point toward strategies for slowing neurodegeneration in humans. The claim is interesting. The caveats are…
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OFNC implementation roadmap recommendations lead nine-point submission on Canada’s open banking rules
The Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP analysis of Canada’s open finance trajectory provides useful context: the Consumer-Driven Banking Act received Royal Assent on 26 March 2026, with proposed regulations released for comment on 27 June 2026. The Open Finance Network of Canada (OFNC) has now responded, filing a detailed submission ahead of the 26 August deadline that centres its OFNC…
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Asgard archaeon Shark Bay discovery offers clues to how complex cells evolved
A previously unknown microbe found in the Asgard archaeon Shark Bay discovery, published in Current Biology, has given researchers the first direct visual evidence of an ancient microbial partnership that may mirror the origins of complex life on Earth. The team, co-led by UNSW Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Melbourne, captured images of an Asgard…
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Token.io and Open Banking Expo launch Pay by Bank industry survey for sixth year
The sixth annual Pay by Bank industry survey has launched, with Token.io and Open Banking Expo inviting senior professionals across banking, payments, retail and fintech to submit their views on what the payment method needs to do next. The anonymous survey, which takes approximately seven minutes to complete, is open to respondents across the UK, Europe and beyond, and closes…
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FAST DESI star formation study finds hydrogen abundant as stellar birthrate halves
A new study combining the FAST DESI star formation study’s paired datasets has produced a finding that complicates one of astronomy’s tidier narratives: the universe is making stars at less than half the rate it managed 4.5 billion years ago, yet it has not meaningfully run short of the hydrogen needed to do so. The research, led by scientists from…
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UK Open Banking value creation: beyond the billion-payment milestone
The UK’s Open Banking ecosystem has reached two milestones that underline how far the infrastructure has come, but, as Rich Mansell of Concentrix argues, Open Banking value creation is still the harder, unfinished task. More than one billion payments and 100 billion API calls have now been processed across the CMA9 banks, and the numbers behind those headline figures fill…
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