Monthly Archives: Giugno 2018
Redis Servers Found Infected – people continue to ignore security warnings
Despite the continual emergence of new cyber attacks because of misconfigured servers and applications, people continue to ignore security warnings.
A massive malware campaign designed...
Wireless system can power devices inside the body
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within...
New Tool Gets Children’s Perspectives on Own Mental Health
A new tool called PSYCHLOPS Kids is able to capture a child’s perspectives of their mental health problems and express themselves more fully than...
Researchers shed light on how stress granules, enzymes linked to a range of neurodegenerative...
Cell biologists have deepened understanding of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
The findings could open up new treatment approaches for disorders including Alzheimer’s disease,...
Men with higher levels of testosterone and DHEA in blood and saliva samples had...
The level of sex hormones such as testosterone in a man’s body could influence his religiosity.
A new study by Aniruddha Das of McGill...
the 6 common types of disgust that protect us from disease
Disgust has long been recognised as an emotion which evolved to help our ancestors avoid infection, but now researchers have been able to show...
One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is...
One out of every five deaths among young adults in the United States is related to opioids, suggests a study led by researchers in...
Polarized cells give the heart its fully developed form
When it first starts to develop, the heart is a simple tube. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at MDC have now described...
Microsoft reportedly buys GitHub code-sharing service
Here's the biggest news of the week: Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub and could announce a deal in likely worth billions of dollars as...
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticles
A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays,...
Biologists program cells to self-organize into 3D-structures in a first step towards tissues that...
How do complex biological structures -- an eye, a hand, a brain -- emerge from a single fertilized egg?
This is the fundamental question of...
Research reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision
New research by academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals how well fearful facial expressions are perceived in peripheral vision.
Although human vision...
Hospital superbug uses tiny sticky fingers to infect medical tools and devices
The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumanniibacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes nosocomial infections.
Researchers at the University of Turku have discovered that the...
Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut
You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal...
Scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience – the sense...
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience -- the sense of connection to something greater than oneself.
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