How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
A fruit fly hunting a piece of rotting fruit or a mate navigates by smell, following plumes of odor. Out in the wild, turbulent air swirls these plumes into a…
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
When the history of our ancestry is written, the fact that we’ve interbred with some of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, will have a central role. And it…
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The…
Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle
Human eyes don’t register the infrared portion of the light spectrum because infrared photons don’t carry enough energy to trigger the signaling pathway inside our light-sensing cells. But we’ve been…
China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
While recycling is a mathematically obvious response to the finite, non-renewable nature of many resources, the economic math is often challenging. For many materials, it can be hard to compete…
‘Exceptionally rare’ World War I-era biplane returns to Long Island
A rare, post-World War I biplane that may have been one of the first aircraft to survey South America has made it back to its hometown after more than a…
Roman soldiers pelted rebels with signed slingshot bullets
In 39 BCE, a Roman governor decided to drive a message home to revolters in present-day Spain in the bluntest way possible. Among the many recently discovered artifacts at an…
WWII helped create Tupperware. Potlucks made it iconic.
In the 1950s, plastic quickly began infiltrating the American household. Women slipped into nylon stockings and Bakelite jewelry; their children played with injection-molded polyethylene dolls and toy soldiers; their husbands…
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that…
Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
If you follow quantum computing news for long enough, it can start to seem like any quantum system that can alternate between two well-separated energy states can be used as…