First Brain-Wide Map of Decision-Making Charted In Mice Summary In a large collaborative effort, neuroscientists produced the first brain-wide map of decision-making activity in mice. The pooled dataset tracked roughly…
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Summary Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class-action suit brought by three authors and a wider class of…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, called Auto Exploit and built by two independent Israeli security researchers, used Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 and other LLMs…
Marsquakes indicate that the inner core of the red planet is solid, not liquid Summary NASA’s InSight lander recorded marsquakes from 2018–2022. Analysis by Bi et al., reported in Nature…
Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species Summary Researchers report a striking reproductive system in the Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus). According to Juvé et al. (published in Nature),…
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Summary Iberian harvester ant queens (Messor ibericus) exploit males of a second species (Messor structor) to produce hybrid worker…
Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa Summary This Nature paper presents a continent-scale, block-level analysis of built environments across sub‑Saharan Africa, linking street-access topology to infrastructure deficits and…
Divergent evolutionary strategies pre-empt tissue collision in gastrulation Summary This Nature study (Dey et al., 2025) combines phylogenetic sampling, live imaging, genetic perturbations and optogenetics to show that flies use…
Two ant species, one mother Summary Nature reports that queens of the Iberian harvester ant Messor ibericus can produce male offspring belonging to a different species, Messor structor, alongside males…
EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire Summary The European Union General Court (EGC) has dismissed Philippe Latombe’s 2023 annulment action against the US–EU Data…
