Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed

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Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) Presents at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 Transcript

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What is COBOL, the high-level programming language that is behind biggest-ever fall in IBM stock value

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Apple Releases Xcode 26.3 With Support for AI Agents From Anthropic and OpenAI

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eLife

Contractile peri-nuclear actomyosin network repositions peripheral and polar chromosomes to promote early kinetochore–microtubule interactions

This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...
Communications of the ACM

Safe Coding

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...
eLife

Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...