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Daily briefing: Skeleton teeth show evidence of the earliest known habitual drug use

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02901-x Traces of the psychoactive compound arecoline suggest that two people regularly sucked on psychoactive betel nuts. Plus, what motivates people to take action on…

NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02892-9 The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core…

Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02893-8 Nature staff discuss an AI tool that can assess the impact of 9 billion mutations — plus, how the Bunsen burner’s reputation for sterilization might be based on…

Osteoporosis affects millions: could modified cells rebuild their bones?

Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02828-3 Small trial hints at regenerative potential of bone-seeking marrow cells.

The AI race to secure Saudi Arabia’s payment boom

RIYADH: As the Kingdom continued to accelerate its technological transformation during the Year of Artificial Intelligence 2026, the rapid expansion of digital payments was creating new opportunities — and challenges — for payment…

Apple’s foldable iPhone poses a $1,999 question: Who is it for?

CUPERTINO, California, Sept 10 - Apple's new foldable iPhone launched on Wednesday with impressive features and a premium price tag, starting at $1,999 in the U.S. market. But some observers in the packed room at the launch event in…

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models

Meet Sally Amaki, the voice actress-idol whose funny videos regularly go viral: ‘Sometimes you just gotta vent'

CNA Lifestyle spoke with popular voice actress Sally Amaki about how she got her start in anime and just how much trouble her candid videos have landed her in.

Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims

American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursday of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from…

U.S. Officials Expected to Announce Cyclospora Outbreak Is Over

More than 11,000 cases of the illness had been linked to lettuce from Taylor Farms that was processed in Mexico. An investigation into how the parasite spread is continuing.

The US Navy is powering drone ships with Rolls-Royce engines which can drive for up to 30 days without human…

The US Navy approved Rolls Royce engines for autonomous surface vessels The certified engines can support missions lasting up to 30 days Series 4000 engines completed two separate 720-hour durability trials The US Navy has approved…