Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain New research by a scientist at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that “selfish chromosomes” explain why most human embryos die very early. The study, published in PLoS Biologywhich explains why fish embryos are fine, but unfortunately human embryos often do not survive, has implications for … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain New research by a scientist at the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that “selfish chromosomes” explain why most human embryos die very early. The study, published in PLoS Biologywhich explains why fish embryos are fine, but unfortunately human embryos often do not survive, has implications for … Read more
The leak could be one of the largest ever recorded in history, cybersecurity experts say, highlighting the risks associated with collecting and storing large amounts of sensitive personal data online — especially in a country where government agencies are ramping up and have uncontrolled access to such data. The vast trove of Chinese personal data … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain Since September, the Perseverance rover has been plucking along an ancient river delta on Mars, reaching its robotic arms with whirling steel drills at rock cores, shoveling soil and sucking small amounts of the red planet’s atmosphere into titanium tubes. The plan, under NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, calls for a sci-fi … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 public domain Since September, the Perseverance rover has been plucking along an ancient river delta on Mars, reaching its robotic arms with whirling steel drills at rock cores, shoveling soil and sucking small amounts of the red planet’s atmosphere into titanium tubes. The plan, under NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, calls for a sci-fi … Read more
The Department of Justice, along with federal law enforcement partners, today announced criminal charges against six defendants in four separate counts for their alleged involvement in cryptocurrency-related fraud, including the largest known Non-Fungible Token (NFT) scheme to date, which has been charged with being a fraudulent Mutual fund allegedly traded on cryptocurrency exchanges, a global … Read more
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday that the Metaverse could be a sizeable part of the social network operator’s business in the second half of the decade. “We’re hoping to reach basically around a billion people in the metaverse, doing hundreds of dollars in businesses, each of which is buying … Read more
photo: Steve DaSilva People default on their car loans, Toyota shuts down production lines and Audi sues NIO for copyright infringement. All that and more inside The morning shift for June 16, 2022. 1st gear: Certainly a good sign for the economy as a whole Ford CFO John Lawler said on Wednesday The cost of … Read more
It’s no wonder that many people are wary of behavioral genetics. The field, which examines how the DNA we are born with influences our behavior, has been hijacked by eugenicists, white supremacists and mainstream fanatics as a way of reducing inequality for minorities, women, the poor and more than a century of other disadvantaged groups. … Read more