A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

A new study suggests that verbal mistreatment drives malignant self-regard more than other forms of trauma. Researchers found that internalized shame is most closely linked to emotional abuse, with distinct patterns emerging for men.

North Korean hackers abuse Visual Studio Code task files in fake job projects to deploy backdoors, spyware, and crypto miners on developer systems.

Elliptic says Telegram-based Tudou Guarantee has stopped public transactions after handling $12B, amid arrests and ongoing global crypto scam crackdow

A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions.

ACF Extended, currently active on 100,000 websites, is a specialized plugin that extends the capabilities of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin with features for developers and advanced site builders.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025–14533, can be leveraged for admin privileges by abusing the plugin’s ‘Insert User / Update User’ form action, in versions of ACF Extended 0.9.2.1 and earlier.

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The focal adhesion protein vinculin affects the dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton, and reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton is an energetically demand

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Religion and science don’t have to be enemies. Andrew Henry talks with scholar Andrew Aghapour about what the Religion and Science series revealed, how science studies religious experience, and where scientific approaches can quietly mislead.

Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We review published papers and synthesize developmental patterns of international top scientists, musicians, athletes, and chess players. The available evidence is highly consistent across domains: (i) Young exceptional performers and later adult world-class performers are largely two discrete populations over time. (ii) Early (e.g., youth) exceptional performance is associated with extensive discipline-specific practice, little or no multidisciplinary practice, and fast early progress. (iii) By contrast, adult world-class performance is associated with limited discipline-specific practice, increased multidisciplinary practice, and gradual early progress.