Concept-Wrapper Network, a concept-based explanation approach deployed on a real autonomous vehicle, improves drivers’ ability to understand and predict its behaviour.
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This Tiny Animal Can Pass Radiation Damage to Its Offspring — And Repair It Over Generations
In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill.
No, not tardigrades – it’s their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer.
Just like tardigrades, bdelloid rotifers can dry out almost completely and spring back to life when water returns. They can be blasted with radiation hundreds of times greater than what would kill a human, and live to tell the tale, even while their chromosomes are shattered.
Physicists Blasted a Quantum Material With Lasers — Then Watched It Rebuild Itself
We already have quantum computers, but they’re highly specialized, not particularly practical, and only cover a fraction of the performance potential that scientists think this technology could ultimately unlock.
Quantum materials can host several competing electronic states, and figuring out how those states form is a longstanding challenge – which brings us to a new study published in Nature Physics.
The study by an international team of researchers investigates how two charge density wave (CDW) phases can emerge and co-exist in the same material.
Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report.
Wiz saw the attacks between August 15 and September 8. JFrog had fixed both flaws before then, so only servers that had not been updated were open to them.
Neither flaw gives administrator control on its own.
Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft
Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services.
The activity has been observed since May 2026 and begins with the attackers researching targeted organizations and employees before calling or messaging victims while impersonating corporate IT help desks.
The attackers tell employees that they must urgently update a passkey, multi-factor authentication (MFA), or single sign-on (SSO) configuration to avoid losing access to corporate systems.
New laser-fabricated plasmonic chip accurately identifies and sorts cancer cells
Novel laser-fabricated plasmonic chip combines 185 nm Raman resolution and deep learning to identify and sort cancer cells with 96.2% accuracy.
Accurate and efficient isolation and recovery of interest cells allow detailed analyses of cellular function, growth and culture, and gene-expression profiling of cells within heterogeneous populations. Researchers have developed a novel microfluidic surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) chip capable of performing deep-learning-assisted, label-free single-cell identification and sorting. The results could be used to guide future research on the design and development of non-invasive, efficient cell-sorting techniques with potential applications in clinical diagnostics and precision medicine.
Cell sorting is a basic yet vital procedure in precision biomedicine. Cell sorting separates mixed cells into pure subgroups based on their unique features. Biological tissues and blood contain diverse cell types, and mixed samples blur true cell signals in gene or protein tests. By sorting, researchers can get uniform cells to study cell functions, stem cell development, and disease mechanisms clearly. It also supports drug screening and cell product quality control. Without these techniques, accurate single-cell analysis and modern cell-based treatments would be impossible. The analysis of rare cells, such as cancer stem cells and circulating tumor cells, to assess their functional responses is rapidly gaining prominence given its relevance for its potential to address issues in the development of new drugs and clinical diagnostics.
