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: 2-Nov-2026 23:15 ET (3-Nov-2026 04:15 GMT/UTC)

18-Oct-2026

Organizing school-based teacher professional development: Insights from Ghana

ECNU Review of Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A recent study conducted in 10 schools in Ghana tested a model for teacher professional development (TPD) based on mobile phone access to an online course. Regular professional learning community meetings supported the teachers. Meeting facilitators' modelling of participatory approaches, along with opportunities for discussion and questions, positively influenced teachers' engagement. Despite the relevance of the course content, teachers required support to access materials for professional purposes using their mobile phones.

Journal: ECNU Review of Education

18-Oct-2026

SNU professor Jaeyoung Do’s team develops unified robot AI that understands instructions, predicts the future, and acts

Seoul National University College of Engineering
Reports and Proceedings

A robot artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed that can understand human instructions, predict what a scene will look like after an action, and then carry out the task. Rather than simply translating instructions into physical movements, the technology also uses the anticipated outcomes of those actions to control the robot.

Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea

18-Oct-2026

Immune changes could signal inflammatory bowel disease up to 10 years before diagnosis

Beyond
Reports and Proceedings

A large-scale study, presented today at UEG Week 2026, has identified distinct antibody patterns up to 10 years before the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), potentially opening new avenues for earlier risk detection and providing insights into future disease course.

Meeting: UEG Week 2026

16-Oct-2026

Science consortium plots strategy to mine data from NASA’s newest space telescope

University of California - Berkeley

Originally conceived as a dark energy mission by UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab scientists, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will soon begin its mission to map the infrared universe. Plans to make the data immediately available online spurred two astronomers — from UC Berkeley and Ohio State — to form a consortium to parcel out the data in the most efficient way to maximize the scientific potential of the telescope to discover exoplanets, map the evolution of dark energy and more.

16-Oct-2026

JMIR News: Informed consent’s redesign for AI-related trials, an autonomous oxygenation device, and the physician-led campaign for Canada’s Safe Social Media Act

JMIR Publications
Reports and Proceedings

JMIR Publications this week released three News and Perspectives features on the latest digital health news: stories on how informed consent must be rethought for clinical trials involving AI; Canada’s proposed Safe Social Media Act and the Canadian Medical Association’s support; and a promising new autonomous oxygen titration device for health care.

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research

16-Oct-2026

3D goggles offer no significant time savings during breath-hold radiotherapy

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY — October 16, 2026 — A new research paper was published in Volume 13 of Oncoscience on September 24, 2026, titled “Investigating the role of 3D goggles in optimising time during deep-inspiratory breath-hold radiotherapy: A randomised study.”

Journal: Oncoscience

16-Oct-2026

More than skin deep: New system for wound analysis earns patent for NJIT researcher

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Grant and Award Announcement

Salam Daher, an associate professor of informatics at NJIT, used scans and digital models of skin abnormalities to develop a system that analyzes and monitors damaged skin regions.