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Month: March 2021
Police warn students to avoid science website
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at…
A Woman Got the First Dose of the Moderna Vaccine While Pregnant—and She Passed Her Protective Antibodies to Her Infant
Find out more about the first-known baby to be born with COVID antibodies after her mom…
Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer
BERLIN (AP) — The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus…
Raspberry Pi Zero Emulates ’80s ZX Spectrum PC From Inside a Cassette Tape
What were cassettes for again? Read more at Tom’s Hardware…
What happens when your massive text-generating neural net starts spitting out people’s phone numbers? If you’re OpenAI, you create a filter
How to curb GPT-3’s tongue? Read more…
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this…
Raspberry Pi Cosmic Ray Detector
[Marco] has a sodium iodide detector that indicates cosmic radiation by scintillation. The material glows when…
COVID-19 vaccines are probably less effective at preventing transmission than symptoms – here’s why
Injected vaccines tend to generate good immunity overall but less of a response in the nose…
Local Denial of Service in Nissan Leaf EV (2018) Head Unit Display
The head unit display in the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle (EV) has a local denial of…
Vaccines should end the pandemic, despite the variants, say experts
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread?…
Hubble Space Telescope is back online after software glitch
The venerable hubble space telescope is recovering from a glitch that halted its science operations over…
Asahi’s plan for Linux on Apple’s new silicon shows Cupertino has gone back to basics with iOS booting
Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1. Read more…
New Ebola outbreak likely sparked by a person infected 5 years ago
Genome analyses suggesting virus persistence raise worries about stigmatization of survivors. Read more at Science |…
NASA Officials Are Worried That Pirates Will Steal the James Webb Telescope
“Why would you announce that you’re going to be shipping on a certain day something that…
Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient ‘Antikythera Mechanism’
A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device’s face. “Unless it’s from…
The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the…
7-Zip developer releases the first official Linux version
An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the…
Open-Source App Lets Anyone Create a Virtual Army of Hackintoshes
A pseudonymous developer created a serial code generator for their MacOS virtualization project, which can mimic…
Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions
For the millions of us plagued by hypersensitive, overactive, or downright abusive immune systems, it can…