The Invisible Breach
Your developer’s laptop is the weakest link in your security stack. Inside software supply chain attacks — and how Perplexity’s Bumblebee is fighting back.
Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical draws on 135 years of Catholic moral tradition to demand AI regulation. Here’s why secular scientists and policymakers should take it seriously.
Thwaites Obituary
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is moving three times faster than in 2020. Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey have pre-written its death notice. Here’s what the science says happens next.
The Parallel Mind
Every major language model generates text one token at a time. Gemini Diffusion generates entire blocks at once, hitting 1,479 tokens/sec. A paradigm shift.
Alien Water
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries water 40 times heavier than Earth’s oceans. Three visitors from other stars suggest our solar system may be the outlier.
The Grown Throat
Scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital grew a functional oesophagus from a child’s own cells. It restored swallowing with no immunosuppression.
The Sleeping Switch
Scientists found SP8 and SP6 genes that control limb regeneration in axolotls and mice. FGF8 gene therapy has partially restored regrowth. The same genes sit dormant in humans.
The Organism That Broke the Code
A pond protist at Oxford uses a genetic code that breaks biology’s most universal rule. Two stop codons repurposed to code for amino acids. The science and what it means.
Sixty Seconds
Keytruda now takes 60 seconds to deliver. How the NHS is rolling out the subcutaneous formulation, how checkpoint immunotherapy works, and what this means for access.
The Trip Was Never the Point
UC Davis researchers made compounds that trigger the same brain plasticity as LSD and psilocybin — without hallucinations. The anomaly that rewrites how psychedelic therapy works.
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