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Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful

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Microfabrication is—simply put—the construction of tiny things, including microscopic and nanoscopic objects and patterns. Microfabrication has major potential in medicine and biomedical engineering, in addition to fields like electronics and photonics—but first, researchers need to develop techniques that are biologically compatible. One team of researchers thinks a crucial step toward that goal involves tattooing tardigrades. … Read more

The Oldest Known Ant Specimen Held Its Prey With Weird Mandibles, Researchers Claim

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When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 million years ago, however, a tiny yet freakishly fearsome predator impaled its prey with scythe-like jaws. While investigating a large collection of fossil insects at the Museum of Zoology at the University of São … Read more

Share of domestic postgraduate researchers hits record low in England

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The share of postgraduate research roles filled by domestic students in England is shrinking, as university leaders warn of “catastrophic” funding cuts to the sector. UK students accounted for just 43 per cent of the … Read more

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters”—the adjustable knobs that determine connections among data and get tweaked during the training process. With more parameters, the models are better able … Read more

Researchers Discover New Species of Enigmatic ‘Fairy Lantern’ Plants

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In 2019, researcher and nature guide Mohamad Alias Shakri spotted an unusual plant in a forest in the Malaysian state of Terengganu. The plant grew in proximity to a well-known hiking trail, but it turns out he had discovered a previously undocumented species. As detailed in a study published Monday in the journal PhytoKeys, the … Read more

Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books

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OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models. AI models are essentially complex prediction engines. Trained on … Read more

Maui’s mayor wants to ban Airbnbs to make housing more affordable for locals. Researchers say it could cause an economic shock

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HONOLULU (AP) — An unprecedented proposal from Maui’s mayor to phase out vacation rentals would alleviate a severe housing shortage aggravated by the 2023 wildfires but would also shrink the economy, University of Hawaii economists said in a report published Monday. Mayor Richard Bissen introduced the policy idea last year to boost Maui’s limited supply of long-term housing after the fires wiped out more than … Read more

Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign 

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Are you willing to hack and take control of Chinese websites for a random person for up to $100,000 a month?  Someone is making precisely that tantalizing, bizarre, and clearly sketchy job offer. The person is using what look like a series of fake accounts with avatars displaying photos of attractive women, and sliding into … Read more

Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears

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If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. When Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, scientists, archivists, and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania raced to save data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NOAA. Another group in Michigan, also fearing the EPA and NOAA websites would lose valuable information, made a … Read more

Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers

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The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab. On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a group of academics and security researchers housed at the University of Toronto that has investigated the spyware industry … Read more

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