EurekAlert! In the Spotlight - Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to In the Spotlight, where each month we shine a light on something exciting, timely, or simply fascinating from the world of science.

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

Latest News Releases

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Nov-2026 14:17 ET (3-Nov-2026 19:17 GMT/UTC)

1-Jul-2026

Mayo Clinic study identifies new brain targets for individualized epilepsy treatment

Mayo Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mayo Clinic researchers have created a detailed map of the pulvinar, a deep brain region that could help doctors more precisely target brain stimulation therapies for people with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Journal: JNeurosci

1-Jul-2026

Study finds little to no cortical lewy pathology in living Parkinson’s disease patients undergoing deep brain stimulation

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Findings challenge longstanding assumptions about how disease progresses and may redefine understanding of subtypes

Journal: npj Parkinson s Disease
Funder: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

1-Jul-2026

Can AI want something? University of Rochester awarded Templeton Foundation grant to find out

University of Rochester
Grant and Award Announcement

A $4.2 million Templeton Foundation grant launches a new institute to investigate one of science’s most urgent questions: What separates living things from machines?

Funder: John Templeton Foundation

1-Jul-2026

This satellite constellation transformed earth science by creatively tuning in to GPS signals

University of Michigan

Key takeaways

---The first constellation to produce high-quality data by picking up GPS microwaves reflecting off Earth, called CYGNSS, is featured in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Living in the Space Age exhibit.

---Distortions in the reflected signals can reveal information about Earth, including hurricane wind speed and the distribution of moisture in soil, and the constellation provided unprecedented coverage in both time and space.

---GNSS-R data is useful for monitoring and forecasting storms, droughts, wildfires, floods and even locust swarms. CYGNSS, originated and managed at the University of Michigan Engineering, paved the way for 10 similar systems that are now operated by government agencies and companies.

1-Jul-2026

Developing a Make-in-India cooling technology for EVs, AI infrastructure, railways, and high-performance electronics

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has won a ₹20 lakh seed grant at MATRIx 2026 (Materials Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Expo), organised by the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), the professional body for metallurgists, for developing an indigenous manufacturing technology that could help address industrial thermal management through a new generation of liquid cold plates. Their innovation, the ‘Advanced Chill Tech,’ rethinks how liquid cold plates are manufactured currently, creating an avenue for an innovation that is affordable, scalable, and sustainable.

1-Jul-2026

JMIR news: AI innovations, digital health transformations, and new medicare models

JMIR Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publication

JMIR Publications released four News and Perspectives stories covering the rapidly evolving landscape of digital health, predictive public health, and clinical artificial intelligence.

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research

1-Jul-2026

New research published in Nature links clinical activity with HIF‑2a biology in advanced kidney cancer patients treated with casdatifan

Arcus Biosciences Inc
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research published in Nature is first study to comprehensively interconnect clinical outcomes from patients receiving a HIF-2a inhibitor, with peripheral biomarker changes and associated tumor biology. HIF-2a inhibition with casdatifan resulted in deep and sustained suppression of the hormone erythropoietin in blood (serum EPO), which correlated with higher response rates and longer progression-free survival (PFS). A pooled analysis from four monotherapy cohorts (n=121) of the ARC-20 study showed that advanced kidney cancer patients treated with casdatifan lived beyond a year without cancer progression (median PFS of 12.2 months) despite multiple prior treatments with other standard regimens.

Journal: Nature