Monthly Archives: Febbraio 2018
BACK AND FORTH EXCHANGES BOOST CHILDREN’S BRAIN RESPONSE TO LANGUAGE
A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than...
Un-forbidden love: Saudis enjoy second ‘religious police-free’ Valentine’s Day
Saudis celebrated Valentine’s Day and its message of love and peace in the absence of religious police after a fatwa permitting the celebrations was...
Hackers Exploiting ‘Bitmessage’ Zero-Day to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys
Bitmessage developers have warned of a critical 'remotely executable' zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage application that was being exploited in the wild.
Bitmessage is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P)...
Microsoft Won’t Patch a Severe Skype Vulnerability Anytime Soon
A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and voice calling service Skype that could potentially allow attackers to...
Hackers Exploit ‘Telegram Messenger’ Zero-Day Flaw to Spread Malware
A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the desktop version for end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app that was being exploited in the wild in...
Brain Imaging Helps Redefine Intelligence
High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain’s actual mental capacity, new research suggests.
In...
How Neural Networks Influence Alcoholism
About 15.1 million American adults have alcohol use disorder, meaning they cannot stop drinking despite adverse consequences–in other words, they have what is commonly...
Glutamate May Play a Role in Addiction and Alcohol Relapse
A study led by Indiana University on neurochemical changes associated with alcohol addiction found that the neurotransmitter glutamate plays a role in some alcohol...
How Insomnia Kills
Laypeople tend to think that insomnia is usually a symptom of something else, like stress, a bad diet or a sedentary lifestyle, but this...
Brain Scans Show Why People Get Aggressive After a Drink or Two
Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that measure blood flow in the brain to better understand why people often become aggressive and...
Are probiotics really useful ?
The World Health Organization defines a probiotic as the set of microorganisms that are able to improve the health of the host.
Probiotic is a...
Water filtration breakthrough using metal-organic frameworks
With two billion people worldwide lacking access to clean and safe drinking water, joint research by Monash University, CSIRO and the University of Texas...
Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
Companies like Amazon have big ideas for drones that can deliver packages right to your door. But, even putting aside the policy issues, programming...
Transforming old mine shafts into future storage sites
Just as there is an interest in sources of energy, there is also an urgent keen interest in storage.
What is viable, as in what...
NIR light may identify breast cancer patients who will benefit most from chemotherapy
A new optical imaging system developed at Columbia University uses red and near-infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy.
The...
