The deadliest in the world the animal is picky eater. Because they carry viral diseases such as Zika and chikungunya, as well as parasites that cause malaria, mosquitoes love blood-sucking Aedes aegypti are responsible for over 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. But in Omid Veiseh’s lab at Rice University, his team of bioengineers struggled to...

For many years in Russia Ransomware gangs launched devastating attacks on businesses, hospitals and public sector entities, extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from victims and causing untold destruction. And they did it with impunity, but nothing more. Today, as part of the fight against ransomware gangs, the UK and US governments have exposed some...

twenty minutes after Microsoft gave me access to a limited preview of their new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine. I asked him about something you don’t usually get up with someone you just met: was the 2020 presidential election stolen? Answering political questions was not one of the use cases that Microsoft showed...

After viewers tagged the segment with transphobic remarks, Twitch banned it. Nothing, forever for two weeks. Hartle, embarrassed and apologetic, said he would be more careful in filtering topics for offensive ones. But he didn’t promise that Larry would get more funny stuff. Nanyung Peng, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California,...

Yes, all of you. I I don’t even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I start this business. We are here to talk about Hogwarts legacy, and for this we need to discuss this whole mess. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into...

December 11th, In 1951, in the laboratories of the French pharmaceutical company Rhône-Poulenc, chemist Paul Charpentier invented a drug that would change the field of psychiatry forever. Charpentier had no intention of fomenting a revolution; in fact, he was trying to create a better antihistamine. But by modifying an existing drug called promazine, he ended...

I switched to one router and reconfigured it, but the lights in my living room were too close together so it didn’t work in that room. The hall, where this motion detection would be most useful, only worked when I set the sensitivity to maximum, and even then it was inconsistent. If I walked down...

Although whole blood transcriptomics was useful, it provided only a general picture of what was happening. The scientists then turned to a technique called CITE-seq. This allowed them to figure out which cells express which genes differently in men and women, and which specific proteins they make. The best part is that CITE-seq could be...

And last month in a magazine Scientific reportsa separate group of researchers described how they used submarine cables off the coast of Chile, Greece and France to detect earthquakes. They compared this data with data from seismometers that tracked the same events, and they matched well. “We can, in real time, when an earthquake occurs,...