Credit: Love Staff / Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, and other authorities have reported a record number of illegal shipments of organic goods. At the same time, the world’s intelligence community has noticed many attempts to smuggle sensitive biological samples in attempts at industrial theft or … Read more
Credit: Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash Researchers led by a team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified and described a previously unknown neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that appears to be the most common neurodevelopmental disorder ever discovered. The condition, caused by a mutation in a small gene called RNU2-2it is … Read more
Isosurface of the Dyson orbital, taken from Piccinelli, Samuele, et al., “Exploring paths towards quantum chemistry: the case of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology,” arXiv, 9 March 2026. arXiv:2603.08696 A recent paper in the journal Science announced the discovery of a truly new and surprising substance that could have a major impact on our … Read more