Monthly Archives: Maggio 2018
Novel research aimed at providing a better understanding of the roots of consciousness
Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science.
And over the last decade, a...
WannaCry hero charged with creating Kronos banking malware
The 23-year-old cybersecurity expert, Marcus Hutchins (@Malwaretech on Twitter), who made headlines for identifying the kill switch for the nasty WannaCry ransomware attack preventing it from further spread...
A high-fiber diet protects mice against the flu virus
Dietary fiber increases survival in influenza-infected mice by setting the immune system at a healthy level of responsiveness, according to a preclinical study published...
Engineers on a roll toward smaller, more efficient radio frequency transformers
The future of electronic devices lies partly within the "internet of things—the network of devices, vehicles and appliances embedded within electronics to enable connectivity...
How We Perceive Color
When we view natural images the colours we perceive are due to colour information at every local patch of an image, rather than how...
How REM and Non-REM Sleep May Work Together to Help Solve Problems
Sleep is known to be important for creative thinking, but exactly how it helps and what role each sleep stage–REM and non-REM–plays remains unclear.
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How the Brain Decides to Make an Effort
From deciding to quit hitting the snooze button and get out of bed in the morning to opting to switch off the TV and...
Water heater: 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a tenth of a picosecond
Scientists have used a powerful X-ray laser to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a tenth of a...
Researchers have used lasers to connect, arrange and merge artificial cells, paving the way...
Researchers have used lasers to connect, arrange and merge artificial cells, paving the way for networks of artificial cells that act like tissues.
The team...
Research in marine snails could lead to new treatments to restore memories and alter...
UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from one to...
Here’s How eFail Attack Works Against PGP and S/MIME Encrypted Emails
With a heavy heart, security researchers have early released the details of a set of vulnerabilities discovered in email clients for two widely used...
Hackers Reveal How Code Injection Attack Works in Signal Messaging App
After the revelation of the eFail attack details, it's time to reveal how the recently reported code injection vulnerability in the popular end-to-end encrypted Signal messaging...
Securus lets cops perform real-time cellphone tracking of US Mobile Users
We all are well-aware of the pervasive ways governments employ to spy upon its citizens and there is a proper system in place to deal with...
Enzyme blocker stops growth of deadly brain tumor
Investigators were able to halt the growth of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, by inhibiting an enzyme called CDK5, according to a...
Research may help combat the deadly gastrointestinal infection Clostridium difficile
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University have discovered how the Clostridium difficile toxin B (TcdB) recognizes the human Frizzled protein,...
