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After 12 Years of Searching for Cause of Bipolar Disorder, Researchers Conclude it Has...

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Following a 12 year long study, researchers have identified seven phenoclasses that can help doctors to diagnose and track the progression of bipolar disorder...

Amber Tinted Glasses May Provide Relief For Insomnia

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A number of recent research papers have warned about the effects of blue light emitted from smart phones can have on sleep patterns. A...

Identified a set of genes that explain why some people need more or less...

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Scientists have identified differences in a group of genes they say might help explain why some people need a lot more sleep–and others less...

Tailgating doesn’t get you there faster

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We've all experienced "phantom traffic jams" that arise without any apparent cause. Researchers recently showed that we'd have fewer if we made one small...

Engineers create plants that glow

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By embedding nanoparticles into the leaves of watercress, engineers have induced the plant to give off dim light for nearly four hours. They believe engineered...

Dune! Game App Leaking Sensitive Data of Millions of Android Users

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Last week HackRead exclusively reported how a Fidget more spin app on Play Store is sending other apps data on an Android device to a server based...

New OSX.Pirrit Malware floods Mac devices with ads – spies on users

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Security firm Cybereason’s principal security researcher Amit Serper has discovered an invasive OSX.Pirrit adware variant that has been launched to target macOS so that attackers could invade...

Hackers Deploy Triton Malware to Shut Down Power Station

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Cybersecurity firm FireEye’s Mandiant subsidiary responded to an incident caused by a new malware attempting to target Industrial safety systems of a critical infrastructure plant. The Triconex...

New design of lithium-ion batteries mitigate the risk of battery failure

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Researchers in the United States have modified the design of lithium-ion batteries to include slits along the electrodes, a feature which may mitigate the...

Soft power cells could run tomorrow’s implantables

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Inspired by the electric eel, a flexible, transparent electrical device could lead to body-friendly power sources for implanted health monitors and medication dispensers, augmented-reality...

Deadly heart rhythm halted by noninvasive radiation therapy

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Radiation therapy often is used to treat cancer patients. Now, doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that radiation therapy...

Engineers program tiny robots to move, think like insects

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While engineers have had success building tiny, insect-like robots, programming them to behave autonomously like real insects continues to present technical challenges. A group of...

Nanotechnologies enables the design of complex single-stranded DNA and RNA origami

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Nanotechnologists are using DNA, the genetic material present in living organisms, as well as its multifunctional cousin RNA, as the raw material in efforts...

NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star

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Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling...

U.S. Ambassador announce that United States will give $120 mln to the Lebanese...

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The United States will give the Lebanese army $120 million in aid, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard announced December 13. The aid includes “six MD 530G...