Melatonin inhibits Gram-negative pathogens by targeting citrate synthase
Infection caused by pathogenic bacteria (especially Gram-negative pathogens), including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pasteurella multocida and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, severely threatens public health worldwide. Historically, the discovery.....»»
Bacterial proteins shed light on antiviral immunity
A unique collaboration between two UT Southwestern Medical Center labs—one that studies bacteria and another that studies viruses—has identified two immune proteins that appear key to fighting infections. The findings, published in PLOS Pathogens.....»»
Fast track to food safety: New test spots seafood pathogen in 30 minutes
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative, halophilic bacterium prevalent in marine environments and is the primary cause of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis, also known as early death syndrome, in aquaculture......»»
Game dev says contract barring “subjective negative reviews” was a mistake
Early streamers agreed not to "belittle the gameplay" or "make disparaging... comments." Enlarge / Artist's conception of NetEase using a legal contract to try to stop a wave of negative reviews of its closed alpha. (credit: NetE.....»»
New study examines the price tag of phasing-out coal
Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Central European University in.....»»
Weaker ocean currents lead to decline in nutrients for North Atlantic ocean life during prehistoric climate change
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have finished investigating how the prehistoric weakening of a major ocean current led to a decline in ocean nutrients and negative impacts on North Atlantic ocean life. The results support predictions a.....»»
Cybercriminals are getting faster at exploiting vulnerabilities
Cybercriminals are targeting the ever-increasing number of new vulnerabilities resulting from the exponential growth in the number and variety of connected devices and an explosion in new applications and online services, according to Fortinet. It’.....»»
Teen gamers say games have two positive impacts & two negative ones
There’s been much debate on whether playing video games has a positive or negative impact on kids – and now teen gamers themselves have weighed-in. A new large-scale survey of US teens found that around 40% of them played every day – with sm.....»»
Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries......»»
Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. Enlarge / A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries......»»
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Native Security simulates harmless attacks on cloud infrastructure
Attackers are targeting the scope and scale of the cloud to run rapid and coordinated threat campaigns. A new approach is needed to defend against them, and SentinelOne is delivering it with the launch of Singularity Cloud Native Security. A solution.....»»
Ghost Security Phantasm detects attackers targeting APIs
Ghost Security announced the early access availability of Phantasm, application-specific threat intelligence poised to fill a large gap that currently exists in both threat intelligence and application security. Developed by a team of industry expert.....»»
Why Big Tech May Never Recover in China
Although the crackdown has eased since 2022, it has left a profoundly negative mark on the sector and state-business relations. Even by its own standards, the tech sector has had an extraordinary year. The surges in valuation of fi.....»»
Global meta-analysis quantifies benefits of cover crop use
For years, both scientists and farmers have debated whether the use of cover crops—plants used to cover the ground after harvesting of main crops—have a positive or negative impact on subsequent crop yield. Hundreds of studies have been performed.....»»
Identifying priorities to leverage smart digital technologies for sustainable crop production
Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers from the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence at the Unive.....»»
Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
How well bees tolerate temperature extremes could determine their ability to persist in a changing climate. But heat tolerance varies between and within populations, so a research team led by Penn State entomologists examined bee physical traits—su.....»»
Novel chemical tool for understanding membrane remodeling in the cell
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Umeå researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that inhibits interaction between two proteins in complexes that reshape membranes inside the cell......»»
Novel triple drug combination effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Scientists at the Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI) have found a new potential combination therapy to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by targeting two key bacterial enzymes involved in resistance. The study, "The Triple Combination of Meropenem, Avi.....»»
Targeting friends to induce social contagion can benefit the world, says new research
A new study co-authored by Yale sociologist Nicholas A. Christakis demonstrates that tapping into the dynamics of friendship significantly improves the possibility that a community will adopt public health and other interventions aimed at improved hu.....»»
Business and management graduates can become sustainability champions—lessons from Uganda and Tanzania
There is no doubt about it: the world is in the grips of a climate crisis. The headlines are full of reports about extreme weather events and the negative effects of the fossil fuel industry......»»
Launch date set for NASA"s PREFIRE mission to study polar energy loss
NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, May 22, 2024, for the first of two launches of the agency's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission to study heat loss to space in Earth's polar regions......»»