How countries can build effective DNA barcoding networks

Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have ...
Tech Xplore

Watching the detectors: Researchers probe efficacy—and danger—of AI detection tools

Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., has questions. When the professor and interim chair of the University of Florida Department of ...
Quanta Magazine

A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots

From the tangle in your computer cord to the mess your cat made of your knitting basket, knots are everywhere in daily life. They also pervade science, showing up in loops of DNA, intertwined polymer ...
VentureBeat

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Detectives use DNA to ID suspect in cold case murders of NJ teen, woman

After nearly three decades, investigators linked a New Jersey man to the cold case murders of a young woman and a teen girl in the mid-90s. During a press conference, on Thursday, April 9, 2026, ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub adds AI-powered bug detection to expand security coverage

GitHub is adopting AI-based scanning for its Code Security tool to expand vulnerability detections beyond the CodeQL static analysis and cover more languages and frameworks. The developer ...
The Conversation

Tracking wildlife using DNA: A scientific breakthrough made with an Indigenous community

Moose, caribou, deer … they’ve roamed the forests for thousands of years, shaping ecosystems as much as human cultures have. But how can we confirm the presence of these animals without observing, ...
Ars Technica

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
ascopubs.org

The Pathologic Response Evaluation and Detection in Circulating Tumor-DNA Study: Ultrasensitive Circulating Tumor-DNA Assessment of Breast Cancer Minimal Residual Disease

Is Unmutated IgG1 a Wrong Choice for Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Immune Checkpoints? Lessons From the Clinical Failures of the First Anti–TIGIT Antibodies Of 227 enrolled patients, 220 were ...
Stars and Stripes

VA plans to scan a million veterans claims for signs of fraud

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to launch an automated fraud-detection tool to scan more than a million disability benefits questionnaires for evidence of fabrication or other ...
USA Today

Historic first: Poachers convicted using DNA from lion, get jail

For the first time in history, poachers have been successfully convicted for killing and trafficking a wild lion, with the prosecutors in Zimbabwe using DNA forensics to prove guilt. Two men ...