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Caffeine Sleep EEG Quality: Eight Hours in Bed Is Not Enough
A systematic review of caffeine’s effects on sleep EEG quality suggests that a full night in bed may offer less neurological recovery than it appears, even when the sleeper notices nothing wrong. The review, by James Chmiel of the University of Szczecin and Prof. Donata Kurpas from the Department of Nursing at Wroclaw Medical University, draws on 32 human studies…
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GoCardless Agentic Payment UK Completes Under FCA Supervision for Trussell
GoCardless says it has processed the first GoCardless agentic payment in the UK, completing an AI-driven donation transaction end-to-end for Trussell, the anti-poverty charity and community of food banks. The company says the entire interaction lived within an AI chat, and that a donor could select a giving amount, learn how the funds would be used, and set up a…
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Long COVID dopamine neurons show damage in PET imaging study
A brain imaging study published in eBioMedicine has found what the researchers describe as the strongest evidence so far that long COVID dopamine neurons sustain measurable damage, a finding that could reshape how scientists think about treating the condition’s most debilitating symptoms. The study was led by scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The researchers used…
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Black Hole Jet Formation Follows One Rule Across All Masses
Black hole jet formation appears to obey a single critical threshold regardless of whether the black hole in question weighs ten times the mass of our Sun or millions of times more, according to a study published in Nature Astronomy on 17 September 2026. The research, led by Andrew Mummery at the Institute for Advanced Study and Adelle Goodwin at…
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Károlyházy gravity decoherence model ruled out in Gran Sasso experiment
A 62-day underground experiment has produced no evidence for the Foundational Questions Institute-supported Károlyházy gravity decoherence model, one of the oldest proposals for why quantum superpositions dissolve in the everyday world. The result, published in the New Journal of Physics in June 2026, does not close the book on gravity’s possible role in quantum decoherence, but it eliminates a prominent…
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Food preservatives heart risk flagged in study of 112,000 French adults
A large observational study has raised questions about food preservatives and heart risk, identifying eight widely consumed additives associated with higher rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The research, published in the European Heart Journal, cannot establish that the preservatives caused the observed outcomes, but its authors say the findings are sufficient to warrant a formal re-evaluation by food safety…
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Four clues to tilted tropical cyclone alignment found in 28 years of Hurricane Hunter data
A study drawing on nearly three decades of airborne radar observations has identified four measurable features that appear to determine whether a tilted tropical cyclone alignment is likely to occur, a transition that must happen before a disorganised storm can begin to intensify substantially. The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and…
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DARE cells cancer resistance: Weizmann study cracks 50-year tissue mystery
A population of cells that initiates its own programmed death and then reverses course, surviving to rebuild damaged tissue, sits at the heart of a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the same mechanism, researchers say, may help explain why some tumours return after radiation therapy in a harder-to-treat form. The paper focuses on what its authors…
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FCA Open Finance SME lending named a priority use case in access-to-finance review
The Financial Conduct Authority‘s FCA Open Finance SME lending commitment has moved a step closer to a formal framework, with the regulator naming SME lending as one of two prioritised use cases for open finance and confirming it will publish a discussion paper in early 2027 to outline options for delivering the first open finance scheme. The announcement came alongside…
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Kimchi bacterium nanoplastic removal claim tested in mice, what the data show
A bacterium isolated from kimchi may assist in kimchi bacterium nanoplastic removal from the gut, according to research from the World Institute of Kimchi (WiKim), a government-funded research institute under South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT. The claim rests on laboratory adsorption tests and a germ-free mouse study: real data, but a long way from a human clinical trial.…
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