Israel’s NRGene identifies mutation that causes colon cancer
Startup's software can accurately and efficiently find genetic mutations in humans, says CEO Gil Ronen
Israel’s NRGene — the only company in the world to map the...
Terahertz spectroscopy goes nano
Brown University researchers have demonstrated a way to bring a powerful form of spectroscopy -- a technique used to study a wide variety of...
Hackers infect Mac users with Proton malware using Elmedia Player
The general concept regarding Apple devices is that they are secure from growing number of malware and other cyber attacks, but the reality is far from the...
Egypt : 54 policemen killed in shootout
At least 54 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed when a raid on a militant hideout southwest of Cairo was ambushed,...
Six Degrees of Separation: Why It Is a Small World After All
It’s a small world after all — and now science has explained why.
A study conducted by the University of Leicester and KU Leuven, Belgium,...
Liquid metal discovery ushers in new wave of chemistry and electronics
Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have used liquid metal to create two-dimensional materials no thicker than a few atoms that have never...
DNA damage found in veterans with Gulf War illness
Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War illness to DNA within cellular structures that...
Google might block embedded cryptocurrency mining with new Chrome feature
Google Aims To Put An End To Secret Cryptojacking By Making In-Browser Permissions Necessary.
In-browser cryptocurrency mining has become the latest obsession among website operators as...
New Model Links Emotions and Mental Health
For decades psychologists have studied how people regulate emotions using a multitude of ways to conceptualize and assess emotion regulation.
Now a recent study...
30-year-old theorem still best to reduce data and speed up algorithms
When we think about digital information, we often think about size.
A daily email newsletter, for example, may be 75 to 100 kilobytes in size.
But...
Brain Training Can Improve Understanding of Speech in Noisy Places
For many people with hearing challenges, trying to follow a conversation in a crowded restaurant or other noisy venue is a major struggle, even...
Navigational view of the brain thanks to powerful X-rays
If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a pretty good "satellite view" of the brain, and a great...
Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, has made a malware scanning and analytics tool called AssemblyLine as open-source by releasing...
H7N9 influenza is both lethal and transmissible in animal model for flu
In 2013, an influenza virus that had never before been detected began circulating among poultry in China.
It caused several waves of human infection and...
Unpatched Microsoft Word DDE Exploit Being Used In Widespread Malware Attacks
A newly discovered unpatched attacking method that exploits a built-in feature of Microsoft Office is currently being used in various widespread malware attack campaigns.
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