Oldest Scottish university, public research institution in St Andrews, Scotland
The latest sanctions have intensified economic pressure on Tehran as a U.S.-led effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz stalls. Tehran says it will respond with intensified measures while Washington maintains its economic campaign.
A pair of Scottish reports show universities are running a multi-hundred-million-pound funding gap in 2023/24, driven by rising costs, inflation and a growing reliance on international student fees. The gap risks affecting teaching, research and infrastructure, with potential consequences for free tuition policies.
OpenAI has published a proposed solution to the Navier‑Stokes Millennium Prize problem after running roughly 10,000 internal AI agents for about 88 hours. Mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge have said OpenAI accelerated work after learning of their AI‑assisted progress and raised questions about whether de‑identified product data influenced the models.
Stanford researchers have transplanted human brain organoids into mice with cortex-depleted brains, creating a model that links human tissue with mouse neural circuits. The work, reported in Nature, shows human cells wiring into mouse brain tissue and drawing attention to ethical oversight and limitations in translating to human disease.
The University of St Andrews has a six-candidate field for rector, including Brian Baumgartner and Green MSP Q Manivannan. Current rector Stella Maris has faced multiple dismissals and reinstatements related to governance disputes. The vote will determine who leads the historic university in a year when the rector role plays a visible part in campus life.