What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Summary Nature’s 2025 editorial highlights that supportive supervision is a key driver of PhD satisfaction and performance. Drawing on Nature’s global PhD survey…
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Article Meta Article Date: 21 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03417-6 Article Title: US PhD admissions shrink as fears over…
‘PassiveNeuron’ Cyber Spies Target Orgs with Custom Malware Summary A persistent cyber-espionage campaign called PassiveNeuron is compromising Windows servers — especially Microsoft SQL Server instances — across government, industrial and…
Brazil must beef up its COP30 scheme to preserve tropical forests Summary Brazil plans to launch the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at COP30 in Belém — a scheme intended…
Selective Methylene Oxidation in α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Natural Products Article Meta Article Date: 20 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09742-0 Article Image: https://media.springernature.com/full/nature-cms/uploads/product/nature/header-86f1267ea01eccd46b530284be10585e.svg Summary This Nature research article reports a catalytic method…
ColdRiver Drops Fresh Malware on Targets Summary Russia-linked ColdRiver (aka UNC4057, Star Blizzard, Callisto) rapidly replaced its exposed LOSTKEYS platform with a new malware toolkit after Google’s GTIG published details.…
Judge bars NSO from targeting WhatsApp users with spyware, reduces damages in landmark case Summary A federal judge in the Northern District of California has issued an injunction preventing NSO…
Why we still don’t understand the Universe — even after a century of dispute Summary Helge Kragh reviews Jim Baggott’s new book, Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant,…
John Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possible Article Meta data Article Date: 20 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03418-5 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03418-5/d41586-025-03418-5_51551870.jpg Summary John Gurdon demonstrated that specialised cells do…
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference Article Meta Article Date: 17 October 2025 Article URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/023257/wikipedia-volunteers-avert-tragedy-by-taking-down-gunman-at-conference Article Image: Summary At WikiConference North America in Manhattan, two…
