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Astronauts face many challenges to their health, due to the exceptional conditions of spaceflight. Among these are a variety of infectious microbes that can attack their suppressed immune systems.

As countries like the US continue racing to inject their populations with the coronavirus vaccine as fast as they can, in an effort to outpace the spread of more transmissible COVID-19 variants, it should come as no surp...

Machine learning quickly and accurately identified sugar chains based on electrical signals generated as they passed through tiny holes in a crystal wafer. The technology could reduce the time for sequencing glycosaminog...

Many Android flagships nowadays feature multi-lens camera systems that include periscope cameras that can offer better optical zoom than what's possible on phones that don't have them. It all started a few years ago when...

Instagram's "suggested" posts feature recommended anti-vaccine content even as Facebook cracked down on false and misleading statements about COVID-19      

As a photographer, I typically have more than one program open at once, but only enough screen real estate to work with one application at a time. Enter the BenQ PD3420Q. The PD3420Q is a 34-inch ultra-wide monitor that ...

Researchers at Skoltech and their colleagues proposed a photonic device from two optical resonators with liquid crystals inside them to study optical properties of this system that can be useful for future generations of...

(IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)) Family members of patients who follow an intensive weight loss programme also lose weight and improve their commitment to the Mediterranean diet. Despite not participa...

Check out these amazing images of clouds drifting over the surface of Mars, snapped by NASA's long-serving Curiosity rover.

A newly released set of security fixes from Apple is "recommended for all users," meaning that for anyone with an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, it's probably time for an update.

The ongoing cold war between Apple and Facebook that's ratcheted up over the past few months, with each company's CEO taking veiled and not-so-veiled potshots at the other over questions around privacy and user data, not...

Qualcomm is arguably the king of smartphone processors, at least on the non-iPhone side of the mobile world. Premium flagships are more or less defined by how they carry the latest Snapdragon 8-series chip but that, in t...

New data suggests that Russia wasn't the only nation state hacking customers.

We can't argue with the fact that cloud computing received a lot of momentum in the year 2020 and is the reason why cloud computing is forecasted to increase to the revenue of USD 163 billion in the year 2021. What does ...

The next generation of medications and preventative treatments for HIV/AIDS continues to look promising. New research released Tuesday suggests that people can safely wear a vaginal ring-based treatment meant to prevent ...

Preply, a tutoring marketplace for language learning, has raised a $35 million Series B co-led by Full In Partners and Owl Ventures, an edtech fund that has backed Byju's and Newsela. The raise comes nearly a year after ...

In response to the reignited global space race, Japan is planning a record space budget of 449.6 billion yen ($4.14 billion) in the fiscal year 2021, up 23.1 percent over the current fiscal year that ends March 30, accor...

Is your new Mac eating your costly SSD? Reports suggest that some new M1 Macs are wearing out their SSDs at alarming rates. I had to see for myself.

An earthquake off the coast of Japan. A resulting tsunami. Ten years ago, Mark Triplett watched the news unfold and worried about two things. The safety of his son and daughter-in-law who were living in Japan at the time...

For decades, there has been a trend in microelectronics towards ever smaller and more compact transistors. 2D materials such as graphene are seen as a beacon of hope here: they are the thinnest material layers that can p...

A new study that characterizes the climate of Mars over the planet's lifetime reveals that in its earliest history it was periodically warmed due to the input of greenhouse gases derived from volcanism and meteorites, ye...

mprovising new stuff from the stuff you have is part of an astronaut's job description--think Apollo 13's crew refitting CO2 filters to save their own lives, or stranded Mark Watney in The Martian, feeding himself on the...