The 2026 season of the Pharma.AI webinar series will showcase the ongoing AI revolution in life sciences, including the increased interest in the use of foundation models why specialized models remain essential for biology, chemistry, and translational research; How Pharma.AI brings together foundation models and scientific AI agents within a unified AI-driven workflow for drug R&D and scientific research; and how Insilico’s leading “AI trains AI” approach may enable foundation models to be better adapted for scientific and drug discovery applications, accelerating the evolution of AI decision-making systems.

A multidisciplinary study conducted by researchers from the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology, Ancient History, Medieval History, and Historiographical Sciences and Techniques at the University of Murcia, together with the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Chemical Institute for Energy and the Environment (IQUEMA) at the University of Córdoba, reveal a unique combination of pigments never before documented in Hispania, with only one known parallel in Ephesus, Turkey

A new type of radiofrequency trap can capture particles with extremely different requirements and could theoretically hold both types of particles at the same time. Researchers in the group of Professor Dmitry Budker from the PRISMA⁺⁺ Cluster of Excellence and the Helmholtz Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) were able to trap calcium ions or electrons in the same apparatus. The team’s findings, published in Physical Review A, show the potential of this technology for synthesizing antihydrogen.

Researchers at DTU have developed a new method that can reduce the time needed to find new bacteria for fermentation. They have now identified a bacterium that can be used both for acidification and to increase the vitamin B2 content of soya drinks. 

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Since then, it has been regarded as a fundamental model in physics, with implications for mathematics, biology, and computer science. Now—forty years later—a Würzburg-based research team from the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has achieved the first experimental demonstration of KPZ behavior on 2D surfaces in space and time. This was made possible by sophisticated materials engineering and a bold experimental approach: researchers injected polaritons—hybrid particles composed of light and matter—into the material. The results have been published in Science.

Blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) are highly attractive for new generation high-definition displays, but their practical deployment is hindered by severe efficiency roll-off at high luminance while maintaining high color purity (Commission International de l’Eclairage coordinates of y (CIEy) < 0.1). To overcome this challenge, we use a multifunctional molecule passivation strategy to improve the external quantum efficiency and operational stability of high color purity blue perovskite QLEDs while achieving ultra-low efficiency roll-off.

Rice researchers develop a way to enable pi interactions between dioxygen and a lanthanide metal called neodymium, enabling the creation of lanthanide-oxos.

A theoretical study conducted at São Paulo State University shows that quantum excitations without topological protection, previously considered experimental limitations, can serve as spectroscopic tools for identifying quantum statistics and stabilizing exotic states in superconducting nanostructures.