Open-source fuzzer uses evolutionary algorithm to produce customized test inputs

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past decade, fuzzers have become the most widely used tools to test software security and robustness. Generating random inputs and feeding them to an…

Chromosome imbalances disrupt mitochondrial function in cancer cells, study finds

Expression levels and cytosolic deposits of p62 are increased in polysomic cells and correlate with aneuploidy. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60857-4 It has been known for several years that…

New heterostructure design advances quantum technology

Schematic Diagram of the Research. Credit: Jiayi Chen, Dandan Guan and Jin-Feng Jia from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems are key to unlocking topological superconductivity, a state that…

2025 Annual RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting Celebrates Past and Looks to the Future

Newswise — Nuclear physicists, theorists, students, and others gathered for the 2025 RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory May 20-23 to…

This bug’s all-in helicopter parenting reshaped its eggs

Parents will fret, even among bugs. And even among bugs, it’s complicated. Ferociously protective parenting has evolved four times among the pointy-faced, wide-bodied little leaf dwellers called shield bugs, researchers…

The impact of nocturnal warming and prey availability during reproduction in a viviparous lizard – Functional Ecologists

In this week’s blog post, we’re checking our calendars and addressing how climate change is causing shifts in breeding dates for reptiles! Discussing the article “A multi-trait evaluation of patterns…

Researcher discusses trapping single atoms and putting them to work in emerging quantum technologies

Credit: Columbia University Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will’s lab, you’ll catch a series of single-second flashes…

Just transition talks find firmer footing

Welcome boost for just transition   Without more social and economic justice, the green transition will be a “mirage”, Climate Action Network’s Anabella Rosemberg said on the last day of…

Cosmic images from the world’s largest digital camera are so big they require a ‘data butler’

The amount of data that will be collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which released its fabulous first-light images this week, will far outweigh what any telescope before it…

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that…