Quails could be the unknown reservoir of Tuscany and Sicilian viruses
Quails could be the unknown reservoir of the Toscana virus (TOSV) and the Sandfly Fever Sicilian virus (SFSV), mosquito-borne pathogens that can infect domestic animals and also cause disease in humans. This conclusion is drawn from a study published.....»»
Six-million-year-old groundwater pool discovered deep under Sicilian mountains
A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has discovered a deep, ancient underground pool of fresh water underneath part of the Sicilian mountains. In their study, reported in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group used publicly.....»»
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests. Enlarge (credit: Dilok Klaisataporn | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown n.....»»
CISA: Adobe ColdFusion flaw leveraged to access government servers (CVE-2023-26360)
Unknown attackers have leveraged a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-26360) in the Adobe ColdFusion application development platform to access government servers, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shared. About the exploi.....»»
"GTA 6" trailer early drop: A timeline of the chaos
Rockstar Games was seemingly forced into dropping the GTA 6 after it was unleashed by an unknown leaker. The GTA 6 trailer dropped earlier than expected, but what, exactly, impelled Rockstar Games to release it ahead of schedule?Here is a timel.....»»
Researchers crack the cellular code on protein folding, offering hope for many new therapeutic avenues
While we often think of diseases as caused by foreign bodies—bacteria or viruses—there are hundreds of diseases affecting humans that result from errors in cellular production of proteins......»»
Exploring bird-like footprints left by unknown animals in Late Triassic Southern Africa
Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a study published November 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miengah Abrahams and Emese M. Bordy of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.....»»
Researchers develop coating process for fabrics that kills or inhibits growth of pathogens
Countless times a day, patients, visitors and medical staff in hospitals touch surfaces of all kinds. Door handles, railings or elevator buttons can serve as transport vehicles for pathogens such as hospital germs or viruses. Smooth surfaces are comp.....»»
Reservoir construction may be reducing carbon storage in ocean sediments
Carbon storage has been a key focus in recent years to draw down natural and anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide and help the fight against global warming, and particularly focuses on terrestrial forests and soils, as well as wetland mangroves an.....»»
Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead
A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound dog trots up with a human femur clenched between its teeth. A woman veers off her normal urban walking path and happens upon a human skull. New property owners commission a land survey that reveals a s.....»»
Fossil unearthed in Mongolia"s Gobi Desert suggests some dinosaurs slept in same position as modern birds
A team of paleontologists and biologists from Hokkaido University, Hokkaido University Museum, North Carolina State University and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur that appears to have slept in.....»»
Archaeologists uncover Europe"s hidden Bronze Age megastructures
Archaeologists from University College Dublin, working with colleagues from Serbia and Slovenia, have uncovered a previously unknown network of massive sites in the heart of Europe that could explain the emergence of the continent's Bronze Age megafo.....»»
Previously unknown luminescence revealed in ten deep sea species and an order of sea cucumbers
In a new textbook published November 10, 2023, "The World of Sea Cucumbers," a team of researchers, including Nagoya University professor Manabu Bessho-Uehara, takes us deep into the watery world of sea cucumbers and reveals their ability to emit lig.....»»
Tracing multiple evolutionary trajectories in aquatic crocodiles
In the geological past, several groups of crocodiles evolved towards a morphology adapted to marine life. However, the extent of these adaptations and their evolutionary trajectories remained unknown. An exhaustive study of their morphology by a scie.....»»
How bacteria recognize viral invasion and activate immune defenses
There's no organism on Earth that lives free of threat—including bacteria. Predatory viruses known as phages are among their most dire foes, infiltrating their cells to replicate and take over. Bacteria have evolved an array of strategies to counte.....»»
A guide to grapevine red blotch disease and its global wine production impacts
In PLOS Pathogens an international team led by Dr. Björn Krenz from the Department of Plant Viruses at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH summarizes the latest research findings and unanswered quest.....»»
Samsung Galaxy Fit 3 leaks may reveal a surprise Fitbit Charge 6 rival
New images show the Fit 3 will have a bigger screen and a three-sensor array on the back, however a lot is left unknown......»»
Beats Fit Pro & Powerbeats Pro get firmware update with unknown fixes
Apple has released a firmware update for Beats Fit Pro and Powerbeats Pro, but the content of the update is unknown beyond bug fixes and performance improvements.Beats Fit ProLike AirPods, Beats by Dre products don't have an obvious manual method for.....»»
Researchers test lake water in Halifax for viruses to demonstrate enhanced detection device
When Emalie Hayes and her colleagues began exploring ways to test wastewater for the COVID-19 virus, little did she know that the simple, inexpensive device she developed would end up being used around the world to identify the presence of the pathog.....»»
Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves—and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies
Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes, viruses can actually get sick. Even better, as karmic justice would have it, the culprits turn out to be other viruses......»»
Learning more about how flu strains evolved may help guide future vaccine development
Simon Fraser University researchers studying the evolutionary history of flu viruses have found that a new quantitative analysis of how they evolved may help predict future strains. The research draws on a field known as phylogenetics, which focuses.....»»