A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A brain–computer interface (BCI) implanted with microelectrodes in the motor cortex decodes imagined speech in near real time. Researchers trained…
Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary A Nature Briefing collecting several short science stories. Lead item: a team of wheeled rovers that can autonomously map and…
Summary Detailed genetic and morphological analysis of the obscure coffee variety traditionally called liberica shows that it is actually three distinct species. Researchers re-examined specimens and genomes, finding clear genetic…
Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility Summary The Nature editorial criticises US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to terminate 22 grants for mRNA-vaccine research (nearly US$500 million),…
Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanises scientists into action Summary The US Department of Energy released a report concluding that global warming is “less damaging economically than commonly believed.”…
DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase Summary DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) programme is moving from Phase 1 to Phase 2 after a quiet $11.3m contract…
Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Summary DeepSeek, the Chinese AI model developer behind the R1 launch, reportedly attempted to train its next-generation R2 model on Huawei’s…
Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it Summary At least a dozen ransomware groups are now using “EDR killers”—tools that disable endpoint detection and…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary Chinese internet giant Tencent told investors on its Q2 earnings…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Summary Foxconn reported Q2 results showing a clear shift: its Cloud and Networking Products division — driven…
