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REM sleep disease risk cut across 83 conditions in 95,000-person study
A large observational study tracking more than 95,000 people has found that REM sleep disease risk spans at least 83 conditions, with greater time in rapid-eye-movement sleep associated with lower rates of dementia, heart failure, and Parkinson’s disease. Published on 17 September in PLOS Medicine, the study also found that sleeping fewer than five hours per night was linked to…
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Acre rebrands to Score after ClearScore deal, promises AI mortgage push
Acre rebrands to Score, the company announced on 23 September 2026, as the mortgage customer relationship management platform moves to align its identity with its new parent, ClearScore Group. The name change is being presented as more than cosmetic: the business says it will accelerate a technology roadmap that includes new AI-powered features and deeper integration with ClearScore’s home lending…
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LHC quantum black hole search sets tightest limits yet on hidden dimensions
A fresh analysis of CERN collision data has produced the most stringent results to date from the LHC quantum black hole search, ruling out the production of such objects below masses of roughly 9.0 to 11.4 TeV and constraining the number of extra spatial dimensions that certain theoretical models can accommodate. The work comes from researchers on the Compact Muon…
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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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