New research holds promise for the improved prevention and treatment of bacterial infections and the…
Month: August 2012
Study of tribe could help find East Asian skin color genes
Genetic investigation of a Malaysian tribe may tell scientists why East Asians have light skin…
Better vaccines for tuberculosis could save millions of lives
Cases of one of the world’s deadliest diseases — tuberculosis — are rising at an…
Space-warping white dwarfs produce gravitational waves
Gravitational waves, much like the recently discovered Higgs boson, are notoriously difficult to observe. Scientists…
Java Runtime Environment 1.7 Zero-Day Exploit Delivers Backdoor
An unpatched JRE 1.7/Java 7 zero-day vulnerability was recently found to be exploited by a…
Java Runtime Environment 1.7 Zero-Day Exploit Delivers Backdoor
An unpatched JRE 1.7/Java 7 zero-day vulnerability was recently found to be exploited by a…
The Chinese Underground, Part 4: Internet Resources And Services Abuse
This is part of a series of blog posts discussing the Chinese underground. The previous…
The Chinese Underground, Part 4: Internet Resources And Services Abuse
This is part of a series of blog posts discussing the Chinese underground. The previous…
NASA’s IceBridge seeking new view of changing sea ice
This year scientists working on NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a multi-year airborne science mission to study…
‘New England Banksia’ a distinct species, botany student shows
The New England Banksia is largely restricted to the eastern edge of the New England…