Category: Technology

Apple Passwords App Vulnerability Exposed Users fo...

Apple’s Passwords app had a security flaw that exposed users to phishing attacks for months. Learn what happened and how to stay p...

Weighing in on a Mars water debate

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still u...

Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to ...

Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, researchers...

Iguanas floated one-fifth of the way around the wo...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related...

Unique dove species is the dodo of the Caribbean a...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out.

How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evol...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and e...

How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

Age of upcoming asteroid flyby target

New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger par...

Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, o...

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These ...

Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size an...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, acc...

Webb telescope captures its first direct images of...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8...

When did human language emerge?

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, langu...

A rubber hand alleviates pain

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certai...

Electronic Data Disposal Policy

Speed up the disposal of information and the destruction of electronic media with this in-depth IT policy. Customizable Document —...

Delhi air pollution worse than expected as water v...

New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to par...

Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons fo...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent ...

Spinning, twisted light could power next-generatio...

Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future...

Study highlights noninvasive hearing aid

A study highlights a new approach in addressing conductive hearing loss. A team of scientists has designed a new type of hearing a...

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparke...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic m...

TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in system of two exoplanets

Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth...