Citizen Lab says Israeli adtech firm Discover-Tech turned ad bidding into a spyware delivery system, exposing a vetted ecosystem's blind spot.

A scientist's unexplained death at a closed anti-plague facility raises urgent questions about biosecurity across the former Soviet Union.

The brainless trading network beneath your feet is one of Earth's biggest carbon sinks - and a strategic asset executives are only beginning to price.

The world's timekeepers just approved a 'leap hour' that lets clocks drift a full hour from Earth's rotation. Here's what breaks.

The Economist's warning to AI neolabs: start producing results, or face a reckoning.

A new Rutgers analysis finds a small but real link between GLP-1 blockbusters and a rare condition that can cause sudden, potentially permanent vision loss - here's what the low absolute risk means for millions of patients.

A new PNAS study challenges Quebec's founding myth of intermarriage, with real stakes for identity claims and Indigenous rights.

A new research-level math benchmark called First Proof shows frontier AI models excelling while open-source rivals struggle, raising cost and access questions for builders.

A collision 65 million light-years away may have stripped these galaxies of dark matter, undercutting theories that rewrite gravity instead of adding invisible mass.

Vasuki indicus, a 47-million-year-old predator, could match the legendary Titanoboa and rewrite what we know about giant snakes.

A £10k address book reveals the loneliness behind the Beatles' success.

A new study shows dogs spontaneously match 'bouba' to round shapes and 'kiki' to spiky ones, suggesting sound symbolism is a shared brain mechanism, not a language-specific quirk.