Category: AI & Emerging Technologies

Nation-State Actor Embraces AI Malware Assembly Line Summary Pakistan-linked APT36 has adopted “vibe-coding” — using conversational AI prompts to generate large volumes of low-quality malware (“vibeware”). Bitdefender calls the tactic…

Advancing operational global aerosol forecasting with machine learning Article Meta Article Date: 04 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y Article Image: Summary This paper presents AI-GAMFS, a machine-learning-driven global aerosol–meteorology forecasting…

Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres Summary Researchers developed Merlin, a 3D vision–language foundation model trained on abdominal computed‑tomography (CT) scans together with radiology…

Cell-free chromatin state tracing reveals disease origin and therapy responses Summary This Nature paper presents cf-EpiTracing, an automated, high-sensitivity platform that profiles multiple cell-free histone modifications from small plasma volumes…

Wind shear enhances soil moisture influence on rapid thunderstorm growth Summary This Nature study uses 21 years of satellite observations across sub-Saharan Africa to show that spatial soil-moisture (SM) patterns…

Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature Summary This Nature study measured thermal limits for ~2,300 insect species (≈8,000 individuals) sampled along elevational gradients in Peru (Andes/Amazon)…

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 Summary Evo 2 is a large, open-source genomic foundation model trained on OpenGenome2 — a curated dataset spanning…