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Chift Series A funding of €10.5m targets pan-European financial connectivity push
Brussels-based Chift has closed a Chift Series A funding round of €10.5 million, led by BlackFin Capital Partners, as the company sets its sights on scaling across Spain, the UK, the Nordics, Germany and Italy. Existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre also participated. The company describes its core problem as “the defining problem of European SMB finance”:…
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Diet biological age reversal signals seen in four weeks, Sydney study finds
A small dietary trial has produced what its authors call an early signal of diet biological age reversal, with three of four eating plans producing measurable shifts in ageing biomarkers among older Australians after just four weeks. The findings, published in Aging Cell, come with clear caveats from the researchers themselves: the effects are preliminary, the study was short, and…
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Hunga Tonga methane destruction detected from space, study finds
A study published in Nature Communications has found evidence of Hunga Tonga methane destruction on a scale researchers had not previously observed, with satellite instruments tracking the chemistry continuously for more than ten days after the January 2022 eruption. The finding matters because it suggests volcanic ash can accelerate the breakdown of a potent greenhouse gas, and because it raises…
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Worldline UCP payment handler goes live for agentic commerce
The Worldline UCP payment handler, launched on 15 September 2026, is the company’s bid to position itself among the first European payment firms to support the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents discover products and execute purchases directly on behalf of consumers. The claim is straightforward: merchants connect once, and the handler takes care of…
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Ancient plague Lake Baikal findings push disease’s deadly history back 5,500 years
Ancient plague at Lake Baikal was already killing hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago, long before medieval cities, rat populations and flea-borne transmission became the defining features of the disease, according to research published in Nature. The study, drawing on ancient DNA recovered from human remains at four burial sites in East Siberia, challenges a longstanding assumption that the earliest forms of…
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Early-onset cancer biological aging link found across 160,000 adults in new study
A study published in Nature Medicine has found a connection between early-onset cancer biological aging acceleration and rising cancer rates in adults under 55, with younger generations showing measurably older biological profiles than their predecessors did at the same chronological age. The research, led by a team at WashU Medicine, drew on data from more than 154,000 young adults in…
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Alzheimer’s 3D genome organisation disrupted across multiple brain cell types, study in Science finds
A study published in Science has found that Alzheimer’s 3D genome organisation is consistently disrupted across several types of brain cells, adding a layer to the disease’s biology that sits alongside the amyloid plaques and tau tangles that have long dominated research. The findings come from a collaboration involving Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh…
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Venus unknown absorber mystery gets tighter quantitative constraints
The Venus unknown absorber mystery, a puzzle that has occupied planetary scientists for roughly a century, now has tighter numerical boundaries around it, following a study published in Astrobiology by an international team of researchers. Using radiative-transfer modelling combined with spacecraft and telescope observations, the team calculated how strongly the liquid inside Venus’s cloud droplets must absorb ultraviolet and blue…
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Coronary calcium scan benefit may be limited to borderline-risk patients, 10-year study finds
A large 10-year study published in JAMA suggests that coronary calcium scan benefit is far narrower than is commonly assumed, adding only a modest improvement over a standard risk calculator for most adults but providing more meaningful information for those whose risk sits in a middle band. The research, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examined data from more…
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Myotis bat longevity genes link immune strength to cancer resistance
A study published in Nature claims that Myotis bat longevity genes are intimately connected to immune function, offering researchers what they describe as a potential new window into the biology of ageing in mammals, including humans. The paper presents the first genomic analysis of eight Myotis bat species, and its authors argue the findings challenge the assumption that diseases of…
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