Monthly Archives: Luglio 2017
Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stepped down after the Supreme Court disqualified him from office as leader of the country's government.
Friday's landmark ruling...
Negativity Be Gone: New Online Tool Can Retrain Brain
Anxiety and depression can have devastating effects on people’s lives.
In some cases, the mental disorders lead to isolation, poverty and poor physical health,...
Lab-Created Mini-Brains Reveal How Growing Organ Maintains Neuronal Balance
Scientists can now explore in a laboratory dish how the human brain develops by creating organoids — distinct, three-dimensional regions of the brain.
In...
Biological mystery of DNA organization now solved
Stretched out, the DNA from all the cells in our body would reach Pluto.
So how does each tiny cell pack a two-meter length of...
How Hackers Cash Out Thousands of Bitcoins Received in Ransomware Attacks
Digital currencies have emerged as a favourite tool for hackers and cyber criminals, as digital currency transactions are nearly anonymous, allowing cyber criminals to...
3 New CIA-developed Hacking Tools For MacOS & Linux Exposed
WikiLeaks has just published a new set of classified documents linked to another CIA project, dubbed 'Imperial,' which reveals details of at least three...
Bitcoin Exchange Operator Arrested For $4 Billion Money Laundering Scheme
Greece police have arrested a Russian man who is believed to have been the operator of the popular BTC-e Bitcoin exchange on charges of...
Brain cells found to control aging
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body.
The...
Seeing galaxies that appeared soon after the Big Bang
Arizona State University astronomers Sangeeta Malhotra and James Rhoads, working with international teams in Chile and China, have discovered 23 young galaxies, seen as...
Living computers: RNA circuits transform cells into nanodevices
The interdisciplinary nexus of biology and engineering, known as synthetic biology, is growing at a rapid pace, opening new vistas that could scarcely be...
Israeli researchers look into eyes for early signs of Alzheimer’s
t is often said that the eyes are the windows to the soul.
But now, researchers at a hospital in Israel say the eyes could...
Wet or dry in an instant: Smart surface enables advanced manipulation of droplets
For many years, engineers have sought to create a special kind of surface:
one that can both repel and absorb liquids, and whose ability to...
US fires warning shots to stop Iran navy vessel in Gulf
A US Navy ship fired warning shots when an Iranian vessel in the Gulf came within 150 yards (137 meters) of it on Tuesday,...
Lutein May Counter Cognitive Aging
Spinach and kale are favorites of those looking to stay physically fit, but they also could keep consumers cognitively fit, according to a new...
A Computer That Reads Body Language
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in...
