Advertisements


Extinct but newly discovered: Germany"s oldest freshwater shrimp

An international team of researchers led by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described Germany's first fossil freshwater shrimp species in the journal Scientific Reports. Most shrimps love marine habitats, but this 48-million-year-old fossilized.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgNov 8th, 2022

Apple promises to finally fix Screen Time bug that lets children visit blocked sites

A bug that lets users circumvent Apple's Screen Time parental controls, and corporate web blacklists, was discovered in 2020, but Apple has refused to fix it — until now.Screen Time's website blocking can be circumventedThis is not the same Screen.....»»

Category: appleSource:  appleinsiderRelated NewsJun 5th, 2024

Apple to fix Screen Time bug that allowed users to circumvent web browser content restrictions

Screen Time promises to allow parents to restrict access to various apps, website and content on their children’s devices. However, ever since Screen Time launched with iOS 12, Apple has been playing whack-a-mole as users discovered new workarounds.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsJun 5th, 2024

TotalRecall shows how easily data collected by Windows Recall can be stolen

Ethical hacker Alexander Hagenah has created TotalRecall, a tool that demonstrates how malicious individuals could abuse Windows’ newly announced Recall feature to steal sensitive information. TotalRecall results (Source: Alexander Hagenah) Cop.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsJun 5th, 2024

How Online Gaming Affects Mental Health, According to Dutch Experts

According to CasinosZonderCruksOnline.com experts, there’s a serious side to online gambling. They’ve found some important things we need to know. This article talks about what Dutch experts have discovered. It focuses on how online casin.....»»

Category: topSource:  tapscapeRelated NewsJun 5th, 2024

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: June 5, 2024

Corporate Data Protection Manager GLS | Germany | Hybrid – View job details As a Corporate Data Protection Manager, you will develop the Corporate Data Protection Framework with a special focus on compliance with the EU General Data P.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsJun 5th, 2024

Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet could reduce ice melt

Every spring when the sun rises in the Arctic after months of darkness, life returns. The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the Arctic tern soar back from their long journey south, and the musk oxen wade north......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Remarkable new plant species steals nutrients from underground fungi

A distinctive plant that steals nutrients from underground fungi has been discovered as a new species by botanists from the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) in collaboration with local naturalists and stakeholders. The research is published.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil unearthed in Oxfordshire, UK

A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three meters—making it one of the largest pterosaurs ever found from that era......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats

I became newly worried about the state of democracy when, a few years ago, my mother was elected president of her neighborhood garden club......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Swarm satellites help aurora chasers discover Steve"s long-lost twin

Ever since aurora chasers discovered Steve, a mysterious ribbon of purple light in the night sky, scientists have wondered whether it might have a secret twin. Now, thanks to a photographer's keen eye, and data from ESA's Swarm satellites, we may hav.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Human activity contributed to woolly rhinoceros" extinction, suggest researchers

Researchers have discovered sustained hunting by humans prevented the woolly rhinoceros from accessing favorable habitats as Earth warmed following the Last Ice Age......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 4th, 2024

Researchers discover 400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer in Israel

A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. The tools, called Quina scrapers (after the site in France where they were first discovered), wer.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 3rd, 2024

Genetic analyses of remains from 500 BCE reveal kinship and ancestry of Celts in Germany

The Celtic culture of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Western and Central Europe has left numerous traces to this day, not least in the form of enormous burial mounds and spectacular archaeological artifacts. Despite this rich legacy, much about this civil.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 3rd, 2024

Fresh findings: Earliest evidence of life-bringing freshwater on Earth

New Curtin-led research has found evidence that fresh water on Earth, which is essential for life, appeared about 4 billion years ago—5 hundred million years earlier than previously thought......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 3rd, 2024

Crucial shift in River Nile"s evolution during ancient Egypt discovered

Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years and how changes in its geography could have helped shape the fortunes of ancient Egyptian civilization......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 3rd, 2024

Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy ever observed, again

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 1st, 2024

Greener, more effective termite control: Natural compound attracts wood eaters

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a highly effective, nontoxic, and less expensive way to lure hungry termites to their doom......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 1st, 2024

Novel nematode species, a relative of model organisms, discovered

A new nematode species has been discovered in soil-dwelling bees at the University of Tsukuba's Sugadaira Research Station. This species shares a close relationship with a model nematode Pristionchus pacificus used in developmental and evolutionary b.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMay 31st, 2024

Mussels downstream of wastewater treatment plant contain radium, study reports

Burrowed into streambeds and rarely moving for their decades-long lifespans, freshwater mussels are biomonitors, meaning they indicate how clean their environment is, according to Penn State researchers. As the bivalves feed on organic matter and fil.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMay 31st, 2024

New vestiges of the first life on Earth discovered in Saudi Arabia

Stromatolites are the earliest geological record of life on Earth. These curious biotic structures are made of algae carpets growing toward the light and precipitating carbonates. After their first appearance 3.48 Ga ago, stromatolites dominated the.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMay 31st, 2024