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Google Redesigns Gmail – Here’s a List of Amazing New Features
Google has finally been rolling out its new massively redesigned Gmail for desktop and mobile to 1.4 billion of users worldwide, which might be the most...
Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness
Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or diabetic retinopathy, that comes with the...
Real and Imagined Movements Are Controlled by the Brain in the Same Way
A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that imagined movements can change our perception in the same way as real, executed movements do.
The...
Schizophrenia and Autism Share Common Traits
New research at Swinburne has revealed a significant overlap in the traits associated with autism and schizophrenia.
It has also discovered that people in the...
Prolonged Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy Linked to Increased ASD and ADHD Risk
A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on the possible relationship between prolonged use of acetaminophen (paracetamol) during pregnancy and...
Soccer heading, not collisions, cognitively impairs players
Worse cognitive function in soccer players stems mainly from frequent ball heading rather than unintentional head impacts due to collisions, researchers at Albert Einstein...
Cheap 3-D printer can produce self-folding materials
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold themselves into predetermined shapes,...
Found: A new form of DNA in our cells
It's DNA, but not as we know it.
In a world first, Australian researchers have identified a new DNA structure -- called the i-motif --...
Nintendo Switches Hacked to Run Linux – Unpatchable Exploit Released
Two separate teams of security researchers have published working proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatchable vulnerability in Nvidia's Tegra line of embedded processors that comes...
How to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys (Cold Storage) from Air-Gapped PCs
Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D team at Israel's Ben Gurion University, who previously demonstrated various methods to steal data from an air-gapped...
Hackers Behind Healthcare Espionage Infect X-Ray and MRI Machines
Security researchers have uncovered a new hacking group that is aggressively targeting healthcare organizations and related sectors across the globe to conduct corporate espionage.
Dubbed...
Johns Hopkins performs first total penis and scrotum transplant in the world
Many soldiers returning from combat bear visible scars, or even lost limbs, caused by blasts from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
However, some servicemen also...
Odd one out: Protein goes against the family to prevent cancer
Melbourne researchers have made the surprise discovery that the 'odd one out' in a family of proteins known to drive cancer development is instead...
Researchers make significant discovery around how inflammation works
A research team from Queen's University Belfast, in collaboration with an international team of experts, have made ground-breaking insights into how inflammatory diseases work.
This...
How Your Brain Learns to Expect Muddy Puddles in the Park
When scientist Thorsten Kahnt was a high school student in Nuremberg, Germany, his friend Christian sported chin-length, curly brown hair. Then one day Christian...
