BlackRock's UNI purchase and other DeFi developments, with Lido and Chaos Labs

• Chaos Labs’ Craig La Riche and Lido’s Will Shannon said BlackRock’s purchase of UNI marks a turning point for institutional DeFi adoption.

Turtles' brains shed light on evolutionary developments dating back hundreds of millions of years

• A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of the ancestral brain: the visual cortex of turtles is

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 194 words