Earlier this year, scientists were able to crack the code that governs the self-assembly of viruses to encode new messages that help the human body.

It’s a tool that could make taking the leap into assembly code just that little bit easier. For another taste of bare metal coding, check out [Ben Jojo]’s discussion of x86 bootloaders.

Assembly was also in the news recently when the "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules" -- written in assembly -- was posted to GitHub. While ...