D-Link MEA Site Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script
Last month the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its site with no opt-out option, utilizing...
UT researchers developed a new tin-aluminum anode dubbed the Interdigitated Eutectic Alloy (IdEA) anode
The batteries we use every day may soon become cheaper, smaller and lighter. Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of...
Next Mars Rover Will Have 23 Eyes
When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three...
Bones affect your appetite and metabolism
Your skeleton is much more than the structure supporting your muscles and other tissues. It produces hormones, too.
And Mathieu Ferron knows a lot about...
Butterfly iQ : portable ultrasound machine – smartphone-based
A surgeon diagnosed his own cancer with the help of a phone.
That is the attention-grabbing line that has turned people's attention to a new...
The world’s shortest laser pulse: Seeing electron movement during chemical reactions
In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists must be able to study all movements of atoms and molecules on...
How a $10 microchip turns 2-D ultrasound machines into 3-D imaging devices
Technology that keeps track of how your smartphone is oriented can now give $50,000 ultrasound machines many of the 3-D imaging abilities of their...
Eyes : automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness
The eyes are for seeing, but they have other important biological functions, including automatic visual reflexes that go on without awareness.
The reflexive system of...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower
For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of their daily calories to their brains than other animals. Although the human brain...
Virtual Reality Reduces Phantom Pain in Paraplegics
In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced...
Reports brain cells are made up of less polyunsaturated fatty acids than other major...
A discovery made by Junhwan Kim, PhD, assistant professor at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, is challenging science’s longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular...
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere highest level in 800,000 years
Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million in 2016, up from 400.00 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities...
Malicious Chrome Extension Steals ‘All Posted Data’ without Login Credentials
The trend of spreading adware, banking Trojans and malicious malware through compromised or fake browser extensions seems to be increasing.
Lately, there have been quite a few incidents where...
unCAPTCHA algorithm can Crack Google’s AI System reCAPTCHA
A new algorithm called unCAPTCHA has been developed by researchers from the University of Maryland.
It can defeat the reCAPTCHA system developed by Google to boost its...
USB Stick with Heathrow Security and Queen’s Data Found on London Street
According to reports from the Sunday Mirror, a USB device was found lying on the street in West London having sensitive data belonging to Heathrow security.
An unnamed individual...
