Will Armed EPA Agents Come To Take Your Car Next?
Will Armed EPA Agents Come To Take Your Car Next?.....»»
Jerrod Carmichael has a bad day in On the Count of Three
In his directorial debut, Jerrod Carmichael plays a man who wants to die in On the Count of Three. But he didn't count on being a party to armed robbery......»»
Scientists discover new phage therapy combination to combat antibiotic-resistance
A preclinical study led by Monash University scientists has found that using a combination of phages and antibiotics may be far more effective against bacterial infections than using the agents individually......»»
Double agents: How stomach stem cells change allegiance upon injury
A stomach adult stem cell population can fulfill two distinct functions: either help with digestion under normal conditions or take the lead on injury response. Scientists at IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Scien.....»»
Nigeria Blocks 73 Million Mobile Phones in Security Clampdown
An anonymous reader shares a report: C onstance Chioma calls her son every morning to check that he is safe while studying in northeast Nigeria, a region plagued by deadly attacks by Islamist insurgents and armed kidnappings. Earlier this month, she.....»»
Review summarizes recent advances in nanomaterial-based antiviral strategies
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, infectious diseases are a serious threat worldwide, and new strategies are needed to combat them. In recent years, nanotechnology-based antiviral agents have generated promising results. A review in Small Structure.....»»
Save up to 56% during Lenovo"s spring gaming laptop sale
It's a bigger year than ever for triple-A video games. If you want to be prepared for everything that's coming around the corner, you'll want to be armed with a powerful machine to tackle it all — and these Lenovo gaming laptop deals deliver.Lenovo.....»»
International approval shapes public perceptions of drone warfare
Armed drone strikes earn more public support and legitimacy when they have international approval from organizations such as the United Nations, according to a survey conducted by a team of Cornell researchers......»»
How to find anti-cancer agents
Researchers have developed a novel substance that disables a protein in the cell skeleton, leading to cell death. In this way, substances of this type can prevent, for example, the growth of tumors. To accomplish this, the researchers combined a stru.....»»
New study confirms potential of geoelectrical methods in search for hidden graves
Rather than digging to identify unmarked mass grave sites or evidence to locate missing persons, cutting-edge technologies are helping law enforcement agents, forensic scientists and historians uncover attempts to hide victims......»»
Inorganic nanozymes acting as therapeutic and contrast agents in MRI and PET scanning
The CIC biomaGUNE Molecular and Functional Biomarkers group has developed a rapid, cost-effective, synthetic, microwave method for producing ultra-small manganese ferrite nanoparticles that act as advanced, multimodal contrast agents in magnetic reso.....»»
How a jetpack design helped create a flying motorbike
The developers of a powerful mini aircraft hope it will be used by the armed forces......»»
30-million-year-old Baltic amber reveals a lacewing that looks like a mantis
Lacewings (Neuroptera) are small predatory insects, whose larvae are sometimes used as pest control agents in agriculture. Few non-specialists, however, know that some lacewings can look a lot like praying mantises......»»
Partnership between humanitarian organizations and government is essential for providing cash assistance to refugees
The recent crisis in Ukraine is reigniting the discussion of the appropriate mix of assistance for refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, six million refugees already lived in camps in 2021 due to multiple armed conflicts worldwide. Humanitari.....»»
Criminals Are Staging a Devious New Kind of Kidnapping - and the FBI is Stumped.
schwit1 shares a report: About 10 years ago, when Erik Arbuthnot first started hearing about phony-kidnapping hustles, his fellow agents at the FBI scoffed at the cases. "Don't worry about those," they told Arbuthnot. "Those are fake. We handle the r.....»»
How Do We End Wars? A Peace Researcher Puts Forward Some Innovative Approaches
Young people and women need to be more involved in a continual process of averting armed conflict -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
How Putin"s Pre-War Moves Against Google and Apple Prepared His Clampdown on Free Speech
The Washington Post shares a story that hasn't been previously disclosed. "Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian Presi.....»»
Acoustic propulsion of nanomachines depends on their orientation
Microscopically tiny nanomachines which move like submarines with their own propulsion—for example in the human body, where they transport active agents and release them at a target: What sounds like science fiction has, over the past 20 years, bec.....»»
Meet the 10-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden
In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325–328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides some interesting insight.....»»
This extinct ten-armed fossil may be earliest known ancestor of vampire squid
Syllipsimopodi bideni named to honor US President Joe Biden's commitment to science. Enlarge / An artistic reconstruction of the newly described 328-million-year-old vampyropod, Syllipsimopodi bideni. (credit: K. Whalen/Christopher Wha.....»»
World of Tanks creative director fired for publicly supporting Russian invasion
Burkatovskiy revealed his stance in a now-deleted Facebook post, announcing that he supports "the operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR .".....»»