This article was originally featured on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The outbreaks keep coming. Mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, last year crossed borders with unprecedented speed to infect nearly 90,000 people. In the

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame, led by Professor Bradley Smith, have stumbled upon a novel technique to make existing drugs more effective by loading them into modified silica particles, as detailed in the journal Nanoscale. Credit: Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05528G, Royal Society of ChemistryResearchers at the University of Notre Dame

For the second time in 24 hours, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a major cryptocurrency exchange. Yesterday, the regulator filed charges against Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao, with accusations of manipulative trading practices, mishandling customer assets, and failures of corporate control. Today, the SEC followed up with a suit against the Nasdaq-listed exchange

Jack Wallen/ZDNETThe perfect headphones don’t exist. Sure, you can pay a ridiculous amount of money for a pair of headphones that will sound as if an angel is whispering in your ear the secret to eternal life, but unless you’re willing to shell out 5-6 figures, those are out of reach. And then there’s the bottom

Mind The brain processes voices differently depending on the volume of the speaker and if the listener is focused on them By Jason Arunn Murugesu Mechanisms in the brain help us pick out speech in a crowdZuckerman Institute, Columbia University (2023) We now have a good explanation for how our brain keeps track of a

The antidepressant properties of orcinol glucoside (OG) are well established. It is mostly present in the rhizome of Curculigo orchioides Gaertn, also known as Xianmao in Chinese. According to testimony, OG has a variety of pharmacological effects. According to a few research, the main ingredient in C. orchoides with antidepressant activity may be OG. However

Grizzly Bears in Greater Yellowstone. Credit: United States Geological Survey Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have been able to gain the body fat they need for hibernation even as population densities have increased and as climate change and human impacts have changed the availability of some foods, according to a new study by

Tingo Group, a Nigerian Agri-Fintech, has seen its share price plummet by -55% on NASDAQ after Hindenburg Research announced that it had taken a short position on the company for being an “exceptionally obvious scam”. Hindenburg Research, a U.S.-based investment research firm focusing on short-selling, has accused Tingo Group, a Nigerian company, of being an

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have created a new type of wound dressing material using advanced polymers. This new dressing could enhance the healing process for burn patients and

The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.Olena Shmahalo for Quanta MagazineIntroductionHeat death held a morbid fascination for Victorian-era physicists. It was an early example of how everyday physics connects to the grandest themes in cosmology. Drop ice cubes into a

Image: Apple Apple introduced the Mac Studio with M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips in March 2022. Positioned as a brand-new pro-tier Mac, it’s best described as a Mac mini on steroids. However, when the M2 Pro Mac mini arrived in January 2023, the Mac Studio, with the it’s M1-series chips, lost some of its

The ‘one more thing’ announced by Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this year was the industry’s worst-kept secret. The Apple Vision Pro, the tech giant’s gamble on making mixed reality headsets a thing, has received a mixed welcome. Most of the concern has centered on the eye-watering $3,499 cost. But there’s a bigger

Researchers hope their work on racial health disparities will be a “call to action” Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: “Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost among the Black Population in the U.S., 1999–2020,” by César Caraballo et al., in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 329, No. 19; May 16, 2023 (data)Eighty-two million

Enterprises want to consolidate data storage, extend its useful life and control costs. But what we often see are silos of storage tied to specific applications, workflows and suppliers. These systems may perform well, but they are not always the most efficient or flexible. Software-defined storage (SDS) is an increasingly viable alternative that can bring

The European Union is leaning on signatories to its Code of Practice on Online Disinformation to label deepfakes and other AI-generated content. In remarks yesterday following a meeting with the 40+ signatories to the Code, the EU’s values and transparency commissioner, Vera Jourova, said those signed up to combat disinformation should put in place technology

Instead of swimming away after they broke the rudder, the orcas followed the yacht as a rescue boat towed it to port. (Image credit: Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)A group of orcas recently nearly sank another sailboat in the Strait of Gibraltar and followed the vessel all the way to port —

Technology A test taken by more than 1.5 million people shows that the latest generation of artificial intelligences are almost indistinguishable from humans, at least in a brief conversation By Alex Wilkins Who are you talking to?IR Stone/Shutterstock People can only tell apart artificial intelligences from humans around 60 per cent of the time, according

But this is still better than when the internet works at the start of the day but doesn’t at the end. “That means there is no proof we worked the whole day and we risk losing our wages,” Kanal says. “It is insulting.”Often, she says, she works for 15 days in a month but logs

BLAME CLOP — SQL injection attacks on MOVEit file transfer service likely to get worse. Dan Goodin – Jun 6, 2023 3:05 am UTC Getty Images Organizations big and small are falling prey to the mass exploitation of a critical vulnerability in a widely used file-transfer program. The exploitation started over the Memorial Day holiday—while

This article is republished from The Conversation. Brazil’s coastal waters teem with a rich array of species that paint a living tapestry beneath the waves. This underwater world is particularly special because many of its species are endemic – they are found nowhere else on Earth. The southwestern Atlantic is home to 111 endemic reef