North Korea Attacks South Koreans With Ransomware
North Korea Attacks South Koreans With Ransomware Summary Researchers have uncovered a new campaign by ChinopuNK, a subgroup of the North Korean APT Scarcruft (aka APT37), that targets South Korean…
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death
Oestrogen defends against kidney damage caused by iron-dependent cell death Content summary This News & Views piece discusses a new Nature paper (Tonnus et al.) that links sex differences in…
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera
Octopus motion in the ocean tracked by a deep-sea 3D camera Summary The EyeRIS light-field camera system captures near real-time 3D visual data in situ on the seafloor, enabling researchers…
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’
Levitating platform could ride sunlight into the ‘ignorosphere’ Summary A News & Views piece by Igor Bargatin discusses a new Nature paper (Schäfer et al.) that demonstrates centimetre-scale, perforated-sheet structures…
The perplexing body plan of arrow worms decoded
The perplexing body plan of arrow worms decoded Summary A genome sequence and single-cell atlas for an arrow-worm species (chaetognath) reveal that bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss have…
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape
A humidity measure that accounts for redistribution of water across the landscape Content summary Researchers have developed a global humidity index that explicitly includes lateral hydrological flows — the movement…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone Summary Researchers have demonstrated centimetre-scale, ultralight wafers that can levitate using only sunlight. The design builds on the century-old Crookes radiometer…
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science
Watch rappelling robots dive into a lava tube — for science Summary Researchers tested a team of three autonomous robots on Lanzarote, Spain, to demonstrate coordinated exploration of a volcanic…
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions
Photophoretic flight of perforated structures in near-space conditions Summary This Nature paper reports experiments, analytical models and direct-simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) calculations showing that ultralight, perforated membrane structures can generate…
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing Summary This Nature paper demonstrates how submarine distributed fibre sensing (DAS for acoustic/strain and DTS for temperature) deployed on a 10-km seafloor…