Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware Summary Apple has fixed CVE-2026-20700, a zero-day in dyld (the dynamic linker) that has existed since iOS 1.0 and was…
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers Summary A security researcher known as “Q Continuum” found 287 Chrome extensions that appear to exfiltrate…
Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema Summary Lim et al. (reported in Nature and summarised by Babak Mehrara) show that impaired lymphatic clearance leads to excessive cholesterol deposition in peripheral…
Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain Article metadata Article Date: 11 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09927-7 Article Title: Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain Article Image:…
Sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells Summary Article Date: 11 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10050-w Article Image: Figure 1 This Nature study in Drosophila shows that circulating…
Sub-part-per-trillion test of the Standard Model with atomic hydrogen Article Date: 11 February 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10124-3 Article Image: Summary The authors report an ultra-precise laser-spectroscopy measurement of the 2S–6P…
Large-scale quantum communication networks with integrated photonics Summary This Nature paper demonstrates a proof-of-principle, lab-scale integrated-photonics twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) network — the ‘Weiming Quantum Chip-Network’. The system uses…
Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked Summary Researchers Zhang and Liu report the first aluminium-based catalyst in which the metal readily toggles between oxidation states. This discovery demonstrates…
Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves Summary On 14 September 2015 the two LIGO detectors in the United States recorded a brief signal (about 0.2 seconds)…
Immune cells could be protected from ‘exhaustion’ by flipping genetic switches Summary Researchers used an atlas-guided approach to identify transcription-factor proteins that are selectively engaged when T cells commit to…
