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CERN’s AI innovation recognised at Digital@UNGA Awards 2026

TOPIC:Computing CERN’s AI innovation recognised at the Digital@UNGA Awards 2026 The award celebrates initiatives that use emerging technologies to address global challenges and contribute to an inclusive digital future Written by: Marzena Lapka — 01 October, 2026 The runner-up certificate was presented to Luigi Serio, Principal Scientist at CAFEIN, during the UN General Assembly. (Image: ITU Pictures) CAFEIN®, CERN’s federated learning artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has been recognised as runner-up in the Digital Frontiers category at the Digital@UNGA Awards 2026. The award celebrates pioneering initiatives that responsibly use emerging technologies to address global challenges and c...

📅 2026-10-01 07:02:04 • CERN

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Is cursive worth learning?

Illustration by Roy Scott/Ikon Images Nation & World Is cursive worth learning? Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point. September 30, 2026 4 min read Part of the Wondering series A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Catherine Snow is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Perhaps cursive went out of style because there was a sense that it was just a technical skill, and one that was becoming less and less necessary with the universal availability of keyboards. There’s this sense that there’s a “problem” of putting stuff on paper, and the technic...

📅 2026-09-30 19:35:18 • Harvard Gazette

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What do you know about the Nobels?

Science & Tech What do you know about the Nobels? Illustrations by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 30, 2026 1 min read Harvard’s history with the prestigious prize may surprise you Since 1901, committees in Sweden and Norway have awarded Nobel Prizes annually to recognize achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and (from 1969) economics. Through the years, dozens of Harvard scholars and researchers have earned the title of Nobel laureate across all categories. Test your knowledge of Harvard’s connections with the prestigious prize in the following quiz. var gform;gform||(document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_lo...

📅 2026-09-30 19:22:11 • Harvard Gazette

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Taking vital training home

Maralmaa Chinzorig (top left) talking with a healthcare worker. Assina Kahamba (bottom left) with a group principals. Photos courtesy of Maralmaa Chinzorig and Assina Kahamba Nation & World Taking vital training home With help from the i-Lab, two students tackle improving education in the DRC, healthcare in rural Mongolia Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer September 30, 2026 6 min read Assina Kahamba and Maralmaa Chinzorig both arrived at Harvard for graduate school with the goal of getting the necessary training to help their communities with big problems. For Kahamba, it was strengthening teacher education in Democratic Republic of the Congo. For Chinzorig, it was improving medical care in r...

📅 2026-09-30 17:04:56 • Harvard Gazette

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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy.The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single centralized AI-orchestrated platform that will allow...

📅 2026-09-30 15:15:00 • MIT News

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Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

TOPIC:Knowledge sharing Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn The three laboratories welcomed the high-school students who won this year’s edition of Beamline for Schools Written by: Nicoletta Barzaghini — 30 September, 2026 From 11 to 25 August, a bit earlier as usual due to Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), CERN, DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility in Hamburg) and ELSA (the electron accelerator at the University of Bonn) welcomed the winners of the 2026 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Member of the Turkish team “PionIST 3”, Ceren Akgün, explaining the experiment at CERN during the VIP Sponsor’s Day 2026. (Image: CERN) Launched in 2014 to mark CERN...

📅 2026-09-30 15:05:23 • CERN

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“La nuit est belle!” 2026

TOPIC:At CERN “La nuit est belle !” 2026 From 9 to 11 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !” by switching off lights across its sites — 30 September, 2026 Starting on the evening of Friday, 9 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !”. Thanks to this initiative, turning off or dimming street lighting in the middle of the night has become common practice across the Geneva canton. For this edition, “La nuit est belle !” invites the public to explore the night through the theme of water. Rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and landscapes shaped by water all serve as starting points for discovering the natural, cultural and sen...

📅 2026-09-30 15:03:08 • CERN

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This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers.Using advances in machine-learning, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University developed an AI that defeated top-ranked human players of the board wargame Stratego by a large margin — something no AI system had been able to achieve. Stratego, a two-player game of imperfect information, in which the opponent’s piece identities remain hidden, is often used as a benchmark to test the strategic thinking abilities of powerful AI models.To bu...

📅 2026-09-30 15:00:00 • MIT News

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2 – 12 October | CERN will be at the “Fête de la science” 2026

TOPIC:Knowledge sharing 2 – 12 October | CERN will be at the “Fête de la science” 2026 CERN is organising a wide range of activities across the Pays de Gex as part of the collaborative science programme led by Addictlab — 30 September, 2026 From 2 to 12 October, explore the theme “saveurs, savantes” at the Fête de la Science across France, including in the Pays de Gex. To mark the occasion, CERN is taking part in the collaborative science trail coordinated and led by Addictlab, offering a range of events and activities. This collaborative science trail spans the entire Pays de Gex region, involving local authorities, organisations, businesses and researchers. Many activities and sessions are...

📅 2026-09-30 13:55:44 • CERN

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Photo exhibition|The impact of CERN technologies: from fundamental research to our everyday lives

TOPIC:At CERN Photo exhibition | The impact of CERN technologies: from fundamental research to our everyday lives An exhibition on the Esplanade des Particules showcases in images some of the practical applications of CERN technologies and the expertise of CERN scientists and engineers — 30 September, 2026 The exhibition on the Esplanade des Particules. (Image: CERN) CERN’s fundamental research and unique environment are fertile ground for innovations in particle accelerators, detectors and computing that can benefit society as a whole, sometimes in surprising ways. This photo exhibition presents a selection of the practical applications of CERN technologies and the expertise of CERN scienti...

📅 2026-09-30 13:54:46 • CERN

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Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University

Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University Jessica Keating Wed, 09/30/2026 - 11:35 The awards were announced on Tuesday 29 September at a ceremony at BBC Broadcasting House and broadcast live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The National Short Story Award 2026Cherise Saywell won the BBC National Short Story Award with the University of Cambridge for Ditto, a story about a child’s conflicting loyalties and moment of bravery when violence erupts in his house, which was described by judges as ‘assured’ and ‘beautifully crafted.’ Set in a small Australian town inspired by the place where Saywell grew up, the story explores masculinity, domestic a...

📅 2026-09-30 10:35:28 • Cambridge News

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Lung cancers can use two different mechanisms to evade KRAS-inhibiting drugs

About 25 percent of lung adenocarcinomas have mutations of the gene KRAS, which drives uncontrolled cell growth. In recent years, the FDA has approved two KRAS inhibitors to treat patients with KRAS mutations. While these drugs can work well initially, tumors almost always develop resistance to them.Usually, resistance emerges because cells reactivate KRAS activity, through mutations that prevent drug binding or by increasing KRAS expression that overpowers the effects of the inhibitor. However, in a new study, MIT researchers have modeled an alternative mechanism that cancer cells can use to become resistant to KRAS inhibition.The researchers found that in some cases, lung tumors undergo tr...

📅 2026-09-30 09:00:00 • MIT News

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Climate Action Learning Lab bridges research and policy for effective climate solutions

J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), convened the second cohort of the Climate Action Learning Lab this spring with 17 climate leaders from four U.S. government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Participants then engaged in four months of programming designed to strengthen their skills in generating and using evidence, applying research insights to their own programs, and identifying promising policy-relevant interventions for evaluation.The Climate Action Learning Lab first emerged in 2025 as a response to an urgent need for rigorous research on programs that seek to improve resilience to climate-related hazards and support the t...

📅 2026-09-29 20:35:00 • MIT News

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Why a fight might be just what your group needs

Priya Parker.Photo by Fernando Palafox. Arts & Culture Why a fight might be just what your group needs Priya Parker says sometimes reckoning with buried tensions can help reconnect group to values, identity — and one another September 29, 2026 long read Excerpted from “The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict” by Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12, published on Sept. 8 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Parker is a specialist in conflict resolution who works with organizations, communities, and leaders. When people in conflict first call me, they tend to say some version of: “Make this go away.” I get it. Conflict is not...

📅 2026-09-29 20:01:38 • Harvard Gazette

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Who’s in charge here?

Alex Pascal (left), Avijit Ghosh, Jeff Dunn, and Amit Goldenberg. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Who’s in charge here? Scholars, industry leaders debate how to reduce risks of AI, ensure humans remain in charge of development Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent September 29, 2026 4 min read What do we want from AI? That was the question posed by Alex Pascal, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, at the outset of a panel discussion co-hosted by the center on how AI “can serve people and make our society better.” The powerful, potentially game-changing technology has been in the headlines in recent months after high-profile reports of expe...

📅 2026-09-29 18:31:59 • Harvard Gazette

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‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it

Arts & Culture ‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it Complexity a common theme in GSD students’ option studios Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer September 29, 2026 4 min read Sarah Whiting. Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design don’t just apply their knowledge in the classroom — they tackle real-world challenges facing communities across the world, including in advanced “option studios,” where innovations in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design are among this year’s projects. “Design is not a single thing,” said Dean Sarah Whiting during a kickoff event this month. “It’s not a single technique...

📅 2026-09-29 18:25:45 • Harvard Gazette

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Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet

Work & Economy Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet Illustration by Stuart Kinlough/Ikon Images Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 29, 2026 7 min read Artificial intelligence can do some jobs already, but experts say CEOs have good reasons to keep humans on the payroll If you’re looking for omens of an AI jobs apocalypse, you can certainly find them. News outlets report more layoffs attributed to AI this year than last. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei famously said in 2025 that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Entry-level job postings have fallen by up to 73 percent in four years, by some counts. Other data points are more reassuring. Largely b...

📅 2026-09-29 18:20:20 • Harvard Gazette

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Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

Along with the two Princeton professors, 2013 graduate alumnus Kaiyu Guan has also been awarded one of this year's 20 MacArthur Fellowships.

📅 2026-09-29 16:17:00 • Princeton University News

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AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal

AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/29/2026 - 08:00 A new analysis of Senegalese croplands using an artificial intelligence developed at the University of Cambridge shows how technological benefits enjoyed by industrial agriculture could be brought to smallholder farms in Senegal and other countries in the Global South.Researchers used Cambridge’s Tessera, an open-source AI model trained on satellite images, to map crops in Senegal’s groundnut basin. They found that Tessera was more accurate than current methods, getting the right result 84% of the time in tests while using only a fraction of computational resources and pre-labelled...

📅 2026-09-29 07:00:00 • Cambridge News

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Who we become when we talk to machines

Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses. Brian spent years on the road for work earlier in his career, has never married, and recently broke up with a woman who said he was emotionally unavailable. What did Brian do, in response? He asked the chatbot if the woman had a point. “It’s an extraordinary moment,” writes MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, who interviewed Brian (not his real name) while conducting her research for her new book about chatbots. “Brian asks an object with no emotions to tell him if he is emotionally withholding:...

📅 2026-09-29 04:00:00 • MIT News

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