Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ichthyosaur, swam in a sea near present-day Peterborough, England. This huge animal, shaped like a dolphin, was a quick swimmer that chased prey such as ammonites and squid for sustenance.

However, on this day, luck was not on its side.

A pliosaur, an even more imposing reptile with 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long), dagger-like teeth, attacked the ichthyosaur from underneath, biting with such force during the struggle that the tip of one of its teeth broke off in the middle of the ichthyosaur’s vertebra. The ichthyosaur’s body fell in pieces to the ocean floor, where the pliosaur finished its meal—a vivid scene inspired by the contents of a drawer in the Peabody’s Division of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Scientists have discovered a colossal hidden structure beneath Antarctica that could reshape our understanding of the continent’s past and present.

An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The findings are published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three kilometers thick in parts.

Together, the basins form a giant fan-shaped structure on a continental scale. The team have named it the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province.

A cheap crystal of four common elements produces clean hydrogen from water at temperatures hundreds of degrees lower than older methods need.

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GitHub access sales, leaked repositories, and stolen API keys can all become supply-chain attack footholds. Flare explores how underground forums expose early signals tied to software supply-chain risk.

A curated list of papers on Agentic Time Series, covering time series foundation models, LLM4TS, temporal reasoning, benchmarks, memory, world models, reliability, and fully agentic time series systems.

Researchers at the University of Greifswald have discovered a new mechanism by which bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis can regulate the production of the central metabolic molecule acetyl coenzyme A (Acetyl-CoA). Acetyl-CoA, also known as activated acetic acid, is crucial in the production of nutrients, i.e., proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, and thus plays a key role in the metabolism of all cells.

Until now, it was unclear how bacteria coordinate the production and decomposition of activated acetic acid using this pathway. New findings published in the journal Nature Communications have now shown that Bacillus subtilis uses a special regulatory mechanism to coordinate both processes.

When cells are supplied with an abundance of nutrients, they are forced to decide whether to gain energy or create building blocks for growth. At the heart of this decision-making process is acetyl coenzyme A, which links the decomposition of nutrients with the synthesis of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, thereby acting as a central hub for the entire metabolism during cell formation.

The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest.

Google’s Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its advisory until June 10, so the bug was a zero-day the entire time.

The flaw, CVE-2026–35273, is a remote code execution bug in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools rated 9.8 out of 10. It needs no login and no user interaction, just network access over HTTP, to take over the server. If you run PeopleSoft with the Environment Management Hub reachable from outside, that is your exposure, and the immediate move is to lock those endpoints down.