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Liquid metal discovery ushers in new wave of chemistry and electronics
Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have used liquid metal to create two-dimensional materials no thicker than a few atoms that have never...
DNA damage found in veterans with Gulf War illness
Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War illness to DNA within cellular structures that...
Google might block embedded cryptocurrency mining with new Chrome feature
Google Aims To Put An End To Secret Cryptojacking By Making In-Browser Permissions Necessary.
In-browser cryptocurrency mining has become the latest obsession among website operators as...
New Model Links Emotions and Mental Health
For decades psychologists have studied how people regulate emotions using a multitude of ways to conceptualize and assess emotion regulation.
Now a recent study...
30-year-old theorem still best to reduce data and speed up algorithms
When we think about digital information, we often think about size.
A daily email newsletter, for example, may be 75 to 100 kilobytes in size.
But...
Brain Training Can Improve Understanding of Speech in Noisy Places
For many people with hearing challenges, trying to follow a conversation in a crowded restaurant or other noisy venue is a major struggle, even...
Navigational view of the brain thanks to powerful X-rays
If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a pretty good "satellite view" of the brain, and a great...
Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, has made a malware scanning and analytics tool called AssemblyLine as open-source by releasing...
H7N9 influenza is both lethal and transmissible in animal model for flu
In 2013, an influenza virus that had never before been detected began circulating among poultry in China.
It caused several waves of human infection and...
Unpatched Microsoft Word DDE Exploit Being Used In Widespread Malware Attacks
A newly discovered unpatched attacking method that exploits a built-in feature of Microsoft Office is currently being used in various widespread malware attack campaigns.
Last...
Lower Brain Glucose Levels in Brains of People With Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Glucose levels are reduced in the brains of individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes compared to lean individuals, according to a new Yale...
HIV : New research opens the door to functional cure
In findings that open the door to a completely different approach to curing HIV infections, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research...
Gentle Touch Soothes Pain of Social Rejection
The gentle touch of another individual soothes the effects of social exclusion, one of the most emotionally painful human experiences, according to new UCL...
Saudi Arabia : Hundreds of ancient structures found on edge of VOLCANOES
Researchers have discovered 400 mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia which date back thousands of years, it has been revealed.
David Kennedy, professor of archaeology...
Hackers can hack your kid’s smartwatch and track their location
With smartwatches designed especially for kids being available now, parents are enjoying full peace of mind as they know that they are connected to their kids...
