Tiny gene pieces may hold missing clues to autism, AI study finds
Most people diagnosed with autism never learn of a genetic cause. Known variants explain roughly 15 percent of cases, leaving the large majority without an answer. A study in Nature…
Lab-grown mini brains help decode Braille letters in Bristol study
Can a speck of living brain tissue help a machine read by touch? Engineers in Bristol have taken a small step in that direction. In a paper released on 16…
Albania’s Rama refuses to quit as student unrest sets Tirana ablaze
Edi Rama has survived many storms in thirteen years as Albania’s prime minister, but rarely one like this. For a third straight day on Thursday, students fought riot police in…
Hezbollah owns up to seized explosives truck as Rubio presses Beirut
Half a tonne of TNT and C-4 is now a diplomatic problem. Last week Lebanese security forces stopped a truck at a checkpoint near Dahr al-Baidar, on the mountain road…
Brewers sweep the Dodgers and reach their first World Series in 44 years
October baseball returns to Milwaukee after a four-decade wait. The Brewers finished off the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-4 in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium,…
Colossal’s GenoMorph AI maps 2,300 gene targets for a dodo comeback
Bringing back a bird that vanished in the 1600s is less a single genome problem than a mapping problem. Colossal Biosciences in Dallas says its GenoMorph software can point scientists…
Wooden spear hole in a Neanderthal scapula may be earliest lethal strike
A circular puncture the size of a large marble sits in the left shoulder blade of a Neanderthal known as Shanidar A. The bone, roughly 75,000 years old, comes from…
Iraq’s parliament finishes al-Zaidi’s cabinet amid sanctions row
Iraq’s public finances have been under strain since oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz became a wartime risk. Before late February’s US–Israel campaign against Iran, Baghdad sold about 3.5…
Houthis strike Aden’s presidential palace; five dead
Civilian aviation in Saudi Arabia has become a recurring target in the renewed Red Sea conflict. Coalition briefings credit Houthi forces with twenty hits this month on Riyadh’s King Khalid…
Villa smash Fenerbahçe 6-0 for their biggest European win
Aston Villa turned a Champions League home night into a rout, beating Fenerbahçe 6-0 for the largest margin in the club’s European history. With the Prince of Wales watching and…