MANY COUPLES struggle to conceive. Some are helped by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation). But if the woman has no usable eggs to fertilise, they must either give up or use a donor. Researchers have thus ...

Some species of termites are known to cultivate their own crops of fungus within their nests, similar to the way humans maintain farms to feed people. One such species is Odontotermes obesus, which ...

HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE is arguably the nastiest inherited illness around. Symptoms include involuntary jerking, difficulty swallowing and speaking, lapses of memory, lack of concentration, depression, ...

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A newly-discovered malicious package with layers of obfuscation is disguised as a utility library, with malware essentially hiding in plain sight in embedded QR codes. QR codes are ubiquitous these ...

Sometimes, when we need to decide whether to stay in a relationship or to break up with a partner, the two-chair technique [1] [2] can make the decision easy. When Mary (not her real name for privacy ...

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee met last week. The committee lowered the target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points and hinted at future cuts. The dollar is also up some since ...

Researchers have devised a new technique to trigger Rowhammer bit flips inside the memory cells of DDR5 RAM modules, which were believed to be protected against such attacks. This type of attack ...

An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC's Central Laser Facility. This collaboration is led by the University of ...

University Hospitals, an integrated hospital network, is collaborating with Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company developing safety-focused LLMs for healthcare, to deploy Hippocratic AI's ...

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...