"Junk DNA" could be key to controlling fear
A piece of "junk DNA" could be the key to extinguishing fear-related memories for people struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobia, according to a study from The University of Queensland......»»
Record-breaking rainfall in Asia prompts special curated journal issue
With impacts of climate change like the extreme heatwaves in Canada and Italy and the severe floods in Europe and China, 2021 has been a year of new records and fear for the future. For large parts of eastern Asia, however, the previous summer was on.....»»
South Korea Tests System for Controlling Air Taxis
South Korea demonstrated a system for controlling urban air mobility vehicles (UAM) on Thursday, which it hopes will serve as taxis between major airports and downtown Seoul as soon as 2025, cutting travel time by two-thirds. From a report: Last year.....»»
Slashdot Asks: Which Bookmark Manager Is Your Favorite?
In case you missed it, Google officially ended support for its Bookmarks service on September 30, 2021. But fear not, you can still export your bookmarks if you haven't already. Long-time Slashdot reader GPS Pilot writes: Google has dropped support f.....»»
Red Hat Forced To Hire Cheaper, Less Senior Engineers Amid Budget Freeze
Next year, IBM's Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort aimed largely at controlling costs. The Register reports: An internal email sent on Wednesday by Timothy Cramer, SVP of software engineering, to Red Hat managers direc.....»»
Researchers move closer to controlling two-dimensional graphene
The device you are currently reading this article on was born from the silicon revolution. To build modern electrical circuits, researchers control silicon's current-conducting capabilities via doping, which is a process that introduces either negati.....»»
Our fave bounty hunter takes on Tatooine’s underworld in Book of Boba Fett trailer
"Jabba ruled with fear. I intend to rule with respect." Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen star in a new original Star Wars series, The Book of Boba Fett, coming next month to Disney+. The S2 finale of The Mandalorian included a tantalizing.....»»
From Splatterhouse to Resident Evil, horror games found the fun in fear
Horror games have gone through a hell of an evolution. From Sweet Home to Resident Evil, here's how digital terror has grown......»»
$100M Theranos investor did little vetting for fear of upsetting Elizabeth Holmes
Theranos was “hand-picking” investors to keep company private, jury hears. Enlarge / Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security after arriving for court at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on Septe.....»»
Promising-looking SETI signal turns out to be of human origin
Space junk may look like a supernova as SETI researchers struggle with a signal. Enlarge / Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth aside from the Sun. (credit: ESA, Hubble, and NASA) Modern human society has been making it.....»»
Scientists fear global "cascade" of climate impacts by 2030
Climate hazards such as extreme heat, drought and storms could trigger "cascading impacts" that may be felt around the world within the next decade, warns a study released ahead of the UN climate summit, COP26......»»
Cells move by controlling the stiffness of their neighbours
Cells can control their ability to move through the body by using a protein called fascin to control the stiffness of neighboring cells, suggests a study published today in eLife......»»
Atomic-scale "lasagna" keeps heat at bay
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found new ways of controlling how heat flows through thin materials by stacking atomically thin layers of atoms into van der Waals heterostructures. By comparing different stacks of different materi.....»»
Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)
Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night......»»
So-called junk DNA plays critical role in mammalian development
Nearly half of our DNA has been written off as junk, the discards of evolution: Sidelined or broken genes, viruses that got stuck in our genome and were dismembered or silenced, none of it relevant to the human organism or human evolution......»»
California records driest year in a century
In a year of both extreme heat and extreme drought, California has reported its driest water year in terms of precipitation in a century, and experts fear the coming 12 months could be even worse......»»
A test to diagnose psychopaths can help identify fish behaviors that could benefit aquaculture
In November 1888, fear stalked the streets of London as the Whitechapel Murderer claimed his latest victim. The unusually gruesome attacks had puzzled investigators, so police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond examined the victims for clues that might help rev.....»»
Review: Needle in a Timestack explores how love endures when time is in constant flux
John Ridley based his film on 1966 short story by award-winning author Robert Silverberg. Enlarge / Oscar nominees Leslie Odom, Jr. and Cynthia Erivo co-star as a husband and wife who fear being separated by a warped time line in Needl.....»»
Japanese billionaire Maezawa "not afraid" ahead of ISS launch
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Thursday he had no fear ahead of his "dream-come-true" launch to the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian project aimed at boosting its space tourism credentials......»»
A new twist on 2D materials may lead to improved electronic, optical devices
A new generation of electronics and optoelectronics may soon be possible by controlling twist angles in a particular type of bilayer 2D material used in these devices, strengthening the intrinsic electric charge that exists between the two layers, ac.....»»
New Studies Argue Distant Cosmic Gamma-Ray Explosion Was Actually Just Russian Space Junk
"Last year, a team of astronomers made a blockbuster claim, saying they had captured the most distant cosmic explosion ever — a gamma ray burst in a galaxy called GN-z11," reports Science magazine. "But that flash of light — supposedly.....»»