Monthly Archives: Novembre 2017
Android malware found in hundreds of music player apps on Play Store
It’s just another day with just another news explaining the vulnerable state of Android devices.
This time, the IT security researchers at McAfee have discovered an Android...
Age and Gut Bacteria Contribute to Multiple Sclerosis Progression
Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School published a study suggesting that gut bacteria at young age can contribute to Multiple sclerosis (MS)...
Mom’s Support Helps Kids Learn to Regulate Negative Emotion, but What if Mom is...
Handling a poorly timed tantrum from a toddler—such as in the middle of the grocery store—is never an easy task.
It could serve as...
Small vulnerable sets determine large network cascades in power grids
A trio of researchers with Northwestern University has found vulnerabilities in the North American electrical grid by creating a simulation using real data.
In their...
Brexit: UK banks will lose passporting rights to do business in the European Union....
Banks based in Britain will lose access to EU markets after Brexit unless the country remains in the broader European trading group that includes...
Misconfigured Amazon S3 Buckets Exposed US Military’s Social Media Spying Campaign
UpGuard’s security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets that are available for public access on the internet.
The archives contain several terabytes of data, which...
Russian : A-100 Flying Radar can detect up to 300 targets
The newest Russian AWACS aircraft can detect up to 300 targets.
Russia's A-100, the most advanced airborne early warning and control aircraft (or AWACS), made its maiden...
MQ-9 Demonstrates Anti-Submarine Mission Capabilities
The remote detection and tracking of submerged contacts, such as submarines, was demonstrated using an MQ-9 Predator® B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) during a...
Carefully Crafted Light Pulses Control Neuron Activity
Specially tailored, ultrafast pulses of light can trigger neurons to fire and could one day help patients with light-sensitive circadian or mood problems, according...
How the Immune System Identifies Invading Bacteria
The body’s homeland security unit is more thorough than any airport checkpoint.
For the first time, scientists have witnessed a mouse immune system protein...
Kill switches for engineered microbes gone rogue
Stable autonomous kill switches ensure biocontainment of living microbes designed as devices for medicine or the environment
Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms...
Scientists working in the vanguard of new genetic technologies for ecosystem conservation
Scientists working in the vanguard of new genetic technologies have issued a cautionary call to ensure that possible applications in conservation will only affect...
Hydrogen fuel from water by harnessing red and near-infrared regions of sunlight
Hydrogen gas is a promising "green" fuel.
The lightest chemical element, hydrogen is an efficient energy store and could potentially replace gasoline in vehicles. However,...
Dog ownership linked to lower mortality rate
A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to study the association between...
Discovered Secrets of Ebola in the heart of devastating outbreak
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team...
