Rotifers are microscopic freshwater-dwelling multicellular organisms. They're already known to withstand freezing (even in liquid nitrogen), boiling, desiccation, and radiation, and the group has persisted for millions of years without having sex. The humble yet remarkably hardy bdelloid rotifer...
Advocates say the China Initiative has become an excuse for racial profiling, part of a long US history of treating Asian-Americans as untrustworthy foreigners. In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese immigrants from entering the country for 10...
An array of ATMs and point-of-sale terminals can be hacked with a wave of your phone, according to research released this week about vulnerabilities in near-field communication card readers. And flaws in a well-intentioned Dell firmware update mechanism left...
A group of 17 researchers across disciplines from biology to philosophy published a paper arguing that the impacts of social media should be treated as a “crisis discipline.” | Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn/EyeEm via Getty Images One...
Medical materials that can be inserted into the human body have been used for decades in the field of regenerative medicine - for example, stents that can help dilate clogged blood vessels and implants that can replace teeth or...
It was perfectly reasonable for the Department of Defense to be concerned that these represented some kind of advanced Soviet technology, and so the Air Force launched Project Sign and Project Grudge in 1947 and 1948, respectively, to study...
Angular 12, the latest production release of Google’s popular TypeScript-based web framework, has received an update. Angular 12.1, arrived June 24, adds compiler support for shorthand property declarations as well as fixes for the compiler, compiler CLI, router, and...
One man Recode spoke to said Google attached his professional headshot to a search result about a serial killer. | Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images It’s up to users to find out if Google...
The obvious problem with the lab-leak theory, though, is that there remains no concrete evidence for it. Chan has no particular view about how exactly an accident might have happened—whether a student got sick in a bat cave, say,...
The year 2020 will be remembered for many things. It was the COVID year, a year of social change, and a year of significant political shift in the US. In the tech world, 2020 will be looked at as...
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