Conferences Plot a Comeback Even Before Vaccines Are Widely Distributed
It could take a while before the handshake comes back, if it ever does. Business conferences, however, are set to restart in the U.S. the moment health code allows. And despite uncertainty around when exactly that will be, convention organizers are h.....»»
Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2
More than 8 years after the adoption of HTTP/2, DDoSers devise rapid reset attack. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack.....»»
Assassin’s Creed Mirage ending explained: What happens to Basim, Nehal, and Roshan
If you want to make sense of the thrilling prequel plot of Assassin's Creed Mirage, here's a thorough recap of its ending......»»
A self-wrinkling coating for impact resistance and mechanical enhancement
Polymer coating is widely used as a protective layer in various fields such as surface anti-corrosion, anti-penetration and anti-impact. How to enhance the mechanical properties of coatings such as impact resistance is important but challenging, unde.....»»
OLED iPad Air and iPad mini in the works, but don’t expect them anytime soon
Apple is widely expected to unveil all-new iPad Pro models sometime in early 2024, with one of the headlining changes being a switch to OLED displays. A new report today says that the iPad Air and iPad mini could also switch to OLED displays, but not.....»»
Be prepared to patch high-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl
Details about two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546) in curl, a foundational and widely used open-source software for data transfer via URLs, are to be released on Wednesday, October 11. Daniel Stenberg, the original author and lead dev.....»»
New Malaria Vaccines Offer a Real Shot at Fighting the Disease
A malaria vaccine that could protect millions of children against the parasite-borne disease is expected to roll out early next year. It follows another formula that has already had moderate success......»»
Vaccine may save endangered California condors from succumbing to bird flu
Avian flu vaccines are being used on birds for the first time in the US. Enlarge / A numbered and tagged California Condor in the wild. (credit: Educational Images via Getty) Early March last year, an endangered Californ.....»»
Plot thickens in the hunt for a ninth planet
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of galaxies.....»»
3D sculpting tool ZBrush will get native iPad app in 2024
Popular sculpting software ZBrush is set to get an iPad version for 2024, as revealed during the company's 2023 Summit.Image Credit: PixologicZBrush is a digital sculpting and modeling software widely used in the entertainment and gaming industries......»»
Midwest confronts EV factory bidding wars
Midwestern states fell behind early in the race to secure EV factories. Now they're making an aggressive — and potentially expensive — comeback......»»
Market comeback continues; major automakers post double-digit Q3 sales gains
Analysts expect U.S. light-vehicle sales to rise 13 to 14 percent in September and 15 to 16 percent for the third quarter as retail inventories improve and fleet shipments rebound......»»
Women, minority faculty less likely to negotiate pay or seek other job opportunities, finds study
Race and gender inequities in faculty representation and support have been widely acknowledged, but a new University of Michigan study reveals a previously underexplored contributor to disparities in pay and employment conditions: negotiation behavio.....»»
Electronic sensor the size of a single molecule a potential game-changer
Australian researchers have developed a molecular-sized, more efficient version of a widely used electronic sensor, in a breakthrough that could bring widespread benefits......»»
Study on mysterious Amazon porcupine can help its protection
Porcupines of the genus Coendou are arboreal, herbivorous, nocturnal rodents distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Most of what we currently know on them is restricted to species that occur near urban areas, and we still ha.....»»
Critical zero-days in Exim revealed, only 3 have been fixed
Six zero-days in Exim, the most widely used mail transfer agent (MTA), have been revealed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) last Wednesday. Due to what seems to be insufficient information and poor communication, fixes for only three o.....»»
New material discovery could revolutionize roll-out of global vaccinations
New raw vaccine materials that could make vaccines more accessible, sustainable, and ethical have been discovered. The results of the research have been published in Polymers......»»
Kariko, Weissman win Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines......»»
WHO says flu vaccines should ditch strain that vanished during COVID
Influenza viruses in the B/Yamagata lineage have not been seen since March 2020. Enlarge / Influenza virus. Image produced from an image taken with transmission electron microscopy. Viral diameter ranges from around 80 to 120 nm......»»
Bear-repelling ‘Monster Wolf’ robot gets wider deployment
Japan's Monster Wolf robot, complete with menacing roar and glowing red eyes, is being deployed more widely in a bid to keep bears in the mountains......»»
Study sheds light on differentiated nitrogen sources of co-occurring epiphytes in Chinese subtropical forests
Epiphytes, including lichens, bryophytes, ferns and spermatophytes, are a large and widely distributed group across many forest ecosystems. Acquiring enough nitrogen (N) to support their life processes in nutrient-poor canopies is a crucial challenge.....»»