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Common Criminal Defense : “My Brain Made Me Do It”
IS "MY BRAIN MADE ME DO IT" A DEFENCE?
And when it comes to prison, should pedophiles, psychopaths and other violent criminals be punished less...
Massive astrophysical objects governed by subatomic equation
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe.
Equations describing the quantum world...
New 4G LTE Network Attacks Let Hackers Spy, Track, Spoof and Spam
Security researchers have discovered a set of severe vulnerabilities in 4G LTE protocol that could be exploited to spy on user phone calls and...
US Navy carrier’s visit to Vietnam puts China on notice
For the first time since the Vietnam War, a US Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster...
Researchers identify renegade cells that portend relapse in children with leukemia
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a technique that allowed them to determine at diagnosis whether children with acute lymphoblastic...
Nerve cells found to suppress immune response during deadly lung infections
When the body is fighting infection, the immune system kicks into high gear. But emerging evidence hints at the involvement of another, rather surprising,...
Weightlifting shows benefits for kidney disease patients
Lifting weights can provide significant health benefits to patients suffering from kidney disease.
A new study by University of Leicester researchers, led by Dr Emma...
Minimally invasive surgeries underused in older patients, new study finds
A study of more than 200,000 Medicare patients who had common surgical procedures shows that, compared to the general population, they underwent far fewer...
Study: Pain’s origins differ in males and females
New research from The University of Texas at Dallas supports the growing consensus that pain begins differently for men and women at the cellular...
Found an innovative and promising way to improve solar cells
Solar cells have great potential as a source of clean electrical energy, but so far they have not been cheap, light, and flexible enough...
Ethereum responds to eclipse attacks described by research trio
In a nutshell, three researchers have described in a paper "Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum's Peer-to-Peer Network" that it is possible to carry out...
127-million-year-old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian evolution
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs.
The...
600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland
Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed...
The world’s largest plane is a step closer to its first flight
The hefty, double-bodied Stratolaunch airplane — its wingspan of 385 feet (117 meters) is the widest in the world — recently reached a new...
Astronauts on the ISS : AI ‘Floating-Head’ Will Join the mission
A 3D-printed artificial intelligence system, CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN) - described by its creators as a "flying brain" - will soon join the...
