Category: Technology

Checklist: Network and Systems Security

This checklist can assist information security professionals in identifying and managing cyberthreats. Customizable Document — Rea...

Humans have a long way to go in understanding a do...

New research has revealed that people often do not perceive the true meaning of their pet's emotions and can misread their dog. Th...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected comp...

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST r...

Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the An...

Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berk...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berke...

Microplastics could be fueling antibiotic resistan...

Researchers were shocked to see that bacteria's antimicrobial resistance is strengthened when exposed to plastic particles and poi...

Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: More Earth-like pl...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times t...

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an e...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene...

Beneficial genetic changes observed in regular blo...

Researchers have identified genetic changes in blood stem cells from frequent blood donors that support the production of new, non...

Arctic sea ice loss drives drier weather over Cali...

On decadal timescales, the loss of Arctic ice favors the climate of the south-west of the United States -- and California in parti...

Earth's 'dirty mirror' effect is accelerating clim...

Cloudy areas over oceans are reflecting less sunlight to space than before.

Muscles from the printer: Silicone that moves

Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing ...

Four tiny planets found orbiting one of our neares...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the secon...

Technique to manipulate water waves to precisely c...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists hav...

How climate change affects rain and floods

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this re...

How the brain uses 'building blocks' to navigate s...

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social...

Want to preserve biodiversity? Go big

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologi...

First operating system for quantum networks

Researchers have announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research marks a...

Black holes: not endings, but beginnings? New rese...

New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the unive...

'Doomsday Clock' and patterns of mortality and men...

A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Cloc...