Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes Summary This Nature article reports a catalytic, enantioselective method to prepare alkylidenecyclopropanes (ACPs) using a bifunctional iminophosphorane (BIMP) catalyst. The transformation proceeds by a stereo-controlled,…
Author Correction: A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviours Summary The authors report a correction to their June 2024 Nature paper after discovering a bug in…
Romance scam suspects extradited from Ghana, charged with more than $100 million in thefts Summary Three men were extradited from Ghana to the United States on 7 August after the…
Ransomware gang claims attack on St. Paul city government Summary The Interlock ransomware gang has added the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, to its leak site, claiming to have stolen…
AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that current AI coding tools are underwhelming in practice: while executives (notably GitHub’s CEO) proclaim…
The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business Summary Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791 and now a publicly owned limited company, is modernising rapidly: combining machine…
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study Summary A recent analysis of Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) data examined 754 medical events from 71 astronauts aboard the International Space…
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’ Summary Linux overlord Linus Torvalds publicly scolded long-time contributor Palmer Dabbelt for submitting a late patch…
UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down Summary Marks & Spencer has announced that its Click & Collect service is back…
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit Summary Jim Lovell, the US naval officer and astronaut best known as commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has…
