Category: Technology

Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of i...

Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosc...

'Hidden galaxies': Key to unlocking some of univer...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlockin...

Ancient tools from a South African cave reveal con...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created...

Incident Response Policy

Enhance your organization’s operations and use this IT policy to deal quickly with any security breach. Customizable Document — Re...

Mobile Device Security Policy

Dismiss the dangers and boost your organization’s security via this IT policy. Customizable Document — Ready for use as-is or for ...

Nurture more important than nature for robotic han...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classi...

The new season of The Last of Us has a spore-ting ...

The Last of Us is back on April 13 and this season is more realistic than ever. The trailer for the hit HBO series appears to show...

What if we find nothing in our search for life bey...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study ...

Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule am...

The lush past of the world's largest desert

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home t...

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous f...

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the rig...

Chatbot opens computational chemistry to nonexpert...

A web platform uses a chatbot to enable any chemist -- including undergraduate chemistry majors -- to configure and execute comple...

Researchers use AI to improve diagnosis of drug-re...

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacter...

Using everyday products during pregnancy can affec...

A newly published study found that a mother's exposure to phthalates during pregnancy can affect their newborn's metabolism and br...

Dramatically higher loss of GDP under 4°C warming

New projections reveal a 4 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures would cut world GDP by around 40% by 2100 -- a stark increas...

Early Earth's first crust composition discovery re...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about...

Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy's pa...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists t...

Smartphone photo sensors transformed into an unpre...

Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real tim...

Monkeys are world's best yodellers -- new research

A new study has found that the world's finest yodellers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America. ...

Scientists merge two 'impossible' materials into n...

An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist...