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Canada: Top court orders Google to block website search results
3 hours ago
Canada's top court on Wednesday ordered Google to remove a website from its worldwide search results, in what some experts are calling a landmark international copyright protection case.
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How artificial intelligence is taking on ransomware
5 hours ago
Twice in the space of six weeks, the world has suffered major attacks of ransomware—malicious software that locks up photos and other files stored on your computer, then demands money to release them.
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Scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier
5 hours ago
The technological future of everything from cars and jet engines to oil rigs, along with the gadgets, appliances and public utilities comprising the internet of things, will depend on microscopic sensors.
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Study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age
5 hours ago
It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms—and they're not just bacteria. A study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Medical University of ...
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3,000-year-old textiles are earliest evidence of chemical dyeing in the Levant
5 hours ago
Tel Aviv University archaeologists have revealed that cloth samples found in the Israeli desert present the earliest evidence of plant-based textile dyeing in the region. They were found at a large-scale copper smelting site ...
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How are long strands of DNA packed into tiny cells?
5 hours ago
Scientists are a step closer to understanding how DNA, the molecules that carry all of our genetic information, is squeezed into every cell in the body. How DNA is "packaged" in cells influences the activity of our genes ...
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Nanostructures taste the rainbow
6 hours ago
Engineers at Caltech have for the first time developed a light detector that combines two disparate technologies—nanophotonics, which manipulates light at the nanoscale, and thermoelectrics, which translates temperature ...
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Palm cockatoos beat drum like Ringo Starr
7 hours ago
Professor Rob Heinsohn said while songbirds and whales can belt out a musical tune, few species recognise a beat.
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Researchers develop yeast-based tool for worldwide pathogen detection
7 hours ago
Columbia University researchers have developed a tool that is likely to revolutionize the way we detect and treat pathogens in everything from human health to agriculture to water. Using only common household baker's yeast, ...
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'Bulges' in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions
7 hours ago
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside volcanoes, and found that it can be a reliable indicator of future eruptions.
