Mar 28, 2017
Scientists hope to combat the West Nile virus by understanding vulnerabilities in the DNA of the mosquito that carries the disease. A team led by researchers from The Centre for Genome Architecture (TC4GA) at Baylor College of Medicine have used technologies from IBM,...
Mar 27, 2017
Some galaxies are harder to classify than others, and Hubble’s trusty Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured a striking view of two such interacting galaxies located about 60-million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). The more diffuse and...
Mar 24, 2017
Internet users will have less privacy protection if a resolution passed yesterday (23 March) in the US senate is passed into law. The Senate passed a resolution of disapproval to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s landmark broadband-privacy rules...
Mar 23, 2017
Apple has poured cold water on claims that up to 300-million iCloud accounts have been compromised. This follows reports that a group calling itself the Turkish Crime Family had gained information on 300-million Apple iCloud users. The group apparently demanded a...
Mar 22, 2017
Kathy Gibson reports from CeBit in Hannover – Don’t be lulled into a sense of false security because laws and behaviours in the US may be aimed at curtailing abuses pertaining to data collection about individuals. Edward Snowden, the world’s best-known...
Mar 20, 2017
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses for control of England’s throne in the 1400s, a grouping of stars in the Orion Nebula was waging its own contentious skirmish. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle, which ended with...
