Interesting Engineering

US lab’s ‘Spicy lambs’ protein system cuts rare-earth screening time from years to weeks

LLNL builds protein screening system that accelerates rare-earth separation using bacterial proteins and machine learning. US ...

Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation ...
Becker's Spine Review

5 spine surgery robots, navigation systems to know

Spine robots and navigation systems are helping surgeons level up their day-to-day work in the OR. Here are five major systems to know: Medtronic Stealth AXiS: Stealth AXiS is Medtronic’s newest spine ...
eLife

Fast-ripples are emergent properties of neuronal networks

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...
United States Army

Cadets work with software using Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems that analyzes tactical decisions, provides ethical score

Class of 2026 Cadets Boston Graf, Maksymilian Olszowka and Elizabeth “Ezra” Bardales labored on a capstone project, a ...

Set up a safe testing lab with Hyper‑V and Windows Sandbox

Stop risking your PC. Use Windows 11's built-in virtualization tools to test virtually anything safely in a fully isolated ...
Microsoft

AI-powered defense for an AI-accelerated threat landscape

Read how Microsoft is partnering with Anthropic and broader industry to use leading models, paired with our platforms and ...

Mosyle identifies two new macOS threats invisible to antivirus engines

After exclusively sharing details with 9to5Mac last September on ModStealer, a cross-platform infostealer invisible to every major antivirus engine ...

Engineers develop a new system to track material design processes

Discovering and characterizing new materials is important for unlocking advances in fields like clean energy, advanced ...
Straight Arrow News

Sandy Hook Promise and others use anonymous tips to prevent school shootings. Hackers exposed their data

Software used for submitting anonymous tips in schools was hacked, exposing sensitive records on issues such as potential ...
eLife

REM sleep prefrontal high-frequency oscillation chains mediate distinct cortical – hippocampal reactivation patterns compared to NREM sleep

REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM (NREM) sleep stages contribute to systems memory consolidation in hippocampal-cortical circuits. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying REM memory ...
Newsweek

Anthropic: How Does the US Military Use AI on the Battlefield?

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic has not only resulted in the artificial intelligence company’s $200 million ...