Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Science and Medicine for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A photorealistic magazine-cover overhead shot of a single clear glass petri dish centered in vast pale dawn mist, containing one perfectly closed thin ring of warm gold bacterial culture, surrounded by endless soft gray and deep indigo negative space, bold clean title text 'Science' set large in the empty mist, soft diffused dawn light, minimalist fine-art still life, quiet symmetry, crisp detail on the dish.
This Week in Science and Medicine News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- AI doing real math: Anthropic had an unreleased Claude attempt the Riemann Hypothesis; it failed, but a related statistical result placed over 67% of the zeros on the critical line, up from 42%. Jesse Lichtman called it the most impressive AI math result so far. Steven Strogatz also flagged a neurosurgery resident using ChatGPT 5.6 on an open numerical linear algebra problem.
- AI for health: Google trained Gemini 3.5 Flash across 49,870 simulated telehealth encounters, and it got markedly better at clinical consultations. Separately, Paul Conyngham said he used ChatGPT and computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA vaccine for his dog Rosie's tumour, and several tumours shrank.
- Science-wide effects: Ethan Mollick argued that combining ideas across subfields, as LLMs do in math, could be revolutionary on its own for science weighed down by too much knowledge.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Science and Medicine
My dog Rosie was given months to live. Chemo and immunotherapy failed I used chatgpt + computational genomics to design a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for her tumour. Several of her tumours shrank Today we launch Gamgee (YC S26): personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs”
https://x.com/paul_conyngham/status/2087223666778272070?s=20
Thats the reaserach i love to see: Google put Gemini through a simulated medical residency, and it became markedly better at conducting clinical consultations. ResidencyRL trained Gemini 3.5 Flash across 49,870 simulated telehealth encounters covering 81 conditions. The AI”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2087532555277115604
A missile engineer got tired of mosquitoes… so he built an autonomous drone that hunts them Malaria kills over 600,000 people every year, most of them children under 5, so this could save millions of lives Here’s how it works: > Each drone weighs 40 grams (lighter than a”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2086870148091449590
Bro is testing rag doll physics in the most brutal way possible 😭”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2086561623670485168
4) Attacking a website to solve a math problem We found a trajectory where the model was given only a math problem and system instructions to persist without asking the user for help. After several failed attempts, it searched online, found a website that could verify candidate”
https://x.com/kotekjedi_ml/status/2087147204146499890
We want AIs to be able to help with work to reduce AI risk. But while models do great in domains where reliable feedback is relatively cheap and abundant, like Math and coding, a lot of work on AI risk isn’t like that. Instead, we have to rely on good argumentation to answer”
https://x.com/emwcooper/status/2087584904905114064
Absolutely insane. This might be the clearest glimpse yet of how AI will transform scientific discovery. Anthropic asked an unreleased version of Claude to take a real stab at the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. It failed. But while”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2086881395465466004
In the Text Arena, Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) landed #9 with 1490 pts, another improvement from Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) (#16 -> #9). By category, Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) also strongly improved: – #3 Creative Writing (#12 -> #3) – #4 Math (#7 -> #4) – #9 Instruction Following (#17″
https://x.com/arena/status/2087952191147675693
Bell Labs might be one of THE most incredible examples of what happens if you put science, engineering and capital together for a very long period of time. Their goal was to improve the American telephone network. But what came out was a mixture of MIT, DeepMind, NVIDIA, and a”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2087600503064543383
What sort of maths are LLMs good at? | Gowers’s Weblog
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
~4x faster Kimi-K3 decoding. Our new DSpark speculator takes single-stream interactivity from ~110 to ~435 tok/s/user on math reasoning, delivers ~3.5x the output throughput at matched interactivity under load, and thanks to sliding window attention (2048-token window across all”
https://x.com/RedHat_AI/status/2087907190929531028
I think I need professional medical help. I cant stop. Told myself just one more and that was 40 videos ago. Until Qwen3.8 27B drops my 4×3090 will keep cooking these until they die. More videos and the prompts are in the replies.”
https://x.com/superalesha/status/2087800055583363365
Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI — a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra.
https://x.com/stevenstrogatz/status/2087474852814880960
The most interesting part of this robot is not the arm. It is the gripper. Instead of pushing the whole robot faster, this setup adds speed at the end effector. The gripper itself becomes a moving axis that can accelerate independently of the arm. That changes the physics of”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2086513604057022474
SONIC is officially published in Science Robotics today and it made the Science front page. We show the promise of scaling motion tracking toward natural, robust whole-body control for humanoid robots. Huge thanks to the team, and more exciting work is on the way. Paper:”
https://x.com/yukez/status/2087637171759173694
Computer science is not the only useful discipline for understanding collective AI behavior, it may not even be the most useful.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2086111975889670172
If LLMs did nothing else for science than what they have been doing in math – combining ideas across subfields in novel ways – it would be revolutionary. Before LLMs, science was stalling under the burden of knowledge, there is too much to absorb & work was ossifying as a result”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2087229045029404835
This research approach is not intended prove the Riemann hypothesis itself, but I regard this as the most impressive result that AI has produced in math so far. This is a statistical approach to RH, showing over 67% of the zeros lie on the critical line. This improves over 42%”
https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2086903994094682557
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