One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants Summary This Nature study reports an unprecedented reproductive system in the harvester ant Messor ibericus. Using population genomics, mitochondrial…
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements Summary Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid is now controlled by a single AI model capable of a range of…
Genetic suppression features ABHD18 as a Barth syndrome therapeutic target Summary This Nature paper reports genome-wide genetic screens that identify ABHD18 as a genetic suppressor and potential therapeutic target for…
Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy Summary This Nature paper introduces PADIT-seq, a high-throughput in vitro assay that measures transcription factor (TF) affinity to every possible 10-base DNA…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two Israeli security researchers built an automated pipeline — dubbed Auto Exploit — that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
A circuit that integrates drive state and social contact to gate mating Summary This study identifies a thalamic circuit that gates the transition from appetitive to consummatory male mating behaviour…
JSON Config File Leaks Azure ActiveDirectory Credentials Source: Aleksia via Alamy Stock Photo Summary Researchers from Resecurity’s HUNTER team discovered an appsettings.json file for an ASP.NET Core app that was…
Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain Content summary This study uses droplet-based single-nucleus RNA-sequencing (snRNA-seq), single-cell whole-genome sequencing (scWGS with PTA) and MERFISH spatial transcriptomics on…
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its Security and Privacy Control catalogue (version 5.2.0) to help organisations…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimisation Summary The paper introduces the analog optical computer (AOC), an all‑analog, hybrid opto‑electronic platform that performs iterative fixed‑point searches to accelerate…
