‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A series of false active-shooter reports targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus, prompting shelter-in-place…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a talk at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums (video later uploaded to YouTube), 83-year-old Brian Kernighan described…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary AI web crawlers are causing a marked rise in bot traffic and, according to reporting summarised from…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large randomised trial (REBOOT) and related analyses challenge decades‑old routine use of…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive-research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and repository patches to…
How the pelvis evolved to enable human bipedalism Summary Analyses of pelvic development in humans and other primates reveal how changes in bone‑patterning during growth helped humans evolve continuous upright…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary Researchers from an international team (Singapore and Japan) have published a blueprint for arranging knotted light structures — so-called hopfions…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round raising $863m from a long list…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A new 41-page review traces a decade of progress in wave (blue) energy harvesting, with a focus on…
