Lucas Apa, senior security consultant at cybersecurity company IOActive, handles robots by UBTech and SoftBank Robotics during a demonstration in Singapore August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jeremy Wagstaff More By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly […]
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If you’re not buying Bitcoin, you’re not keeping up with the Joneses. The American middle class is falling in love with the unregulated cryptocurrency’s skyrocketing value, which hit a record-breaking $4,400 in August, a 600 percent year-over-year increase. There are now more Google searches for Bitcoin than for Beyoncé. It’s […]
LOS ANGELES — Nations that create the vast bulk of the Earth’s greenhouse gases can eliminate carbon emissions — thereby slowing climate change and other damaging consequences — if they move aggressively toward energy systems dominated by solar and wind power, a group of researchers said in a paper released […]
Predator animals have long been known to avoid devouring brightly colored and patterned prey, and now an international study has revealed more about how they recognize toxic species. Researchers examined sea slugs, or nudibranchs, which had bright color patterns to warn predators they contained toxic defenses.
Not only people, but mammals like cats, dogs and horses suffer from symptoms and problems of food intolerance and allergies. Scientists have now condensed the knowledge about human and animal food allergies and intolerance into a new European position paper. It highlights the strong similarities in symptoms and triggers of […]
Such detailed images of the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness inside a host are unique so far: They illustrate the manifold ways in which the parasites move inside a tsetse fly.
Lego-like assemblies should have formed relatively frequently during evolution, suggest researchers. Could this assembly method be common, or even easy to reproduce? Their answer may have implications for both biological research and nanoscience.