Researchers have developed "MetaRL," a meta reinforcement learning model that provides near-optimal, individualized investment strategies for goals-based wealth management, i.e., the portfolio composition and the decision to take a goal or not. Pre-trained on thousands of scenarios, MetaRL achieves 97.8% of optimal utility while operating over 100 times faster than traditional methods. The model delivers immediate "zero-shot" solutions in milliseconds and remains robust against changing market regimes and stochastic inflation, enabling high-throughput, sophisticated financial planning for a broad range of investors.

In the first international study of wildlife values, research led by Colorado State University found a distinct difference between Latin American views toward wildlife and those in the United States and Canada – and traced the divergence in views to European colonization centuries ago. The difference in values has important implications for wildlife management policies.

Blood tests to detect potential signs of prostate cancer likely reduce the risk of dying from prostate cancer, an updated Cochrane review finds. This is a shift from the previous version of the review, which did not find sufficient evidence that screening reduced prostate cancer deaths.

A major international study has found that contact with the natural world is linked to higher levels of life satisfaction – and we have our bodies to thank for unlocking this benefit.

The research analysed responses from 50,363 people aged 18 to 99, from across 58 nations, making it the largest multinational study of its kind ever carried out.

Led by Viren Swami, Professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), the study discovered that contact with nature helps people develop more positive body image, and it is this increased “body appreciation” that is responsible for greater life satisfaction.