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GLOBAL CYBERSECURITY AT RISK AS STATE-LINKED HACKERS TARGET SUBCONTRACTORS IN SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACKS

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Wed 18 June 2025: State-sponsored cyber threat groups are increasingly using subcontractor firms with security vulnerabilities to reach major targets that they cannot access directly, prompting a greater emphasis on global cooperation and layered defense strategies against such threats. Supply chain attacks aim to infiltrate large targets indirectly by compromising third parties such as software […]

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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK’S LONG-LOST SHIP DISCOVERED AFTER 250 YEARS

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 A 3D image of the shipwreck site. “This final report is the culmination of 25 years of detailed and meticulous archaeological study on this important vessel,” said Australian National Maritime Museum director Daryl Karp of the museum’s research, which he described as the “definitive statement” on the project.Credit: ANMM via Pen News Tue 17 June […]

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WORLD ON THE CUSP OF A NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE, SAYS SIPRI

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Mon 16 June 2025: The nine nuclear-armed states are building bigger bombs and longer-range delivery systems as the world loses stability. The world is becoming more unstable, and the likelihood that nuclear weapons may one day be used is increasing, despite the wishes of humanity. That is the broad conclusion of the Stockholm International Peace […]

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AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP AI MODEL THAT DECIPHERS WORDS FROM BRAINWAVES

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Mon 16 June 2025: Australian researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can decipher words and sentences from brainwaves detected by a wearable cap, opening up a new frontier in medical science, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday. It will not only help patients with cognition, but could also revolutionize how humans […]

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ANTARCTICA’S EMPEROR PENGUIN POPULATION DECLINING FASTER THAN THOUGHT: REPORT

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Sun 15 June 2025: The emperor penguin population in Antarctica is declining “worse than the worst-case projections,” according to a new study released on Tuesday. The study, based on a new analysis of satellite imagery by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), found the penguins’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period in a key sector […]

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WHY ANTI-TRAFFICKING MEASURES ALONE WON’T SAVE AFRICA’S PANGOLINS

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Sat 14 June 2025: Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s most […]

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MONTH OF MAY WAS WORLD’S SECOND-WARMEST ON RECORD: EU SCIENTISTS

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Fri 13 June 2025: The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada. This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin. Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 […]

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HOW WAS THE WHEEL INVENTED? COMPUTER SIMULATIONS REVEAL THE UNLIKELY BIRTH OF A WORLD-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY NEARLY 6,000 YEARS AGO

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Fri 13 June 2025: Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of mining life. Then one afternoon, you witness a fellow worker doing something remarkable. With an odd-looking contraption, he […]

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