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Sep 27, 2021

The Oldest Human Footprints in North America Could Redefine Prehistory as We Know It —and It’s All Thanks to These Tiny Seeds

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Scientists have dated footprints found in New Mexico to 23,000 years ago—millennia earlier than humans were believed to be in the Americas.

Sep 26, 2021

World First As Human ‘Breast Milk’ Is Created In A Lab

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The female-led start-up wants to give parents a new alternative to formula.

Sep 25, 2021

Microsoft Exchange Bug Exposes ~100,000 Windows Domain Credentials

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A new Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug exposes the credentials of nearly 100,000 Windows domain accounts.

Sep 25, 2021

A New Bug in Microsoft Windows Could Let Hackers Easily Install a Rootkit

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A new vulnerability in all Microsoft Windows systems shipped since 2012 can allow attackers to install a rootkit with ease.

Sep 24, 2021

New Research Could Usher in a New Age of Solid-State Batteries

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LG Energy Solutions, a partner in the research, has plans for mass production of solid-state batteries by 2027.


While the transition to renewable energies is a high priority, there is also a need to develop energy storage equipment to tide over low production cycles. Lithium-ion batteries are currently our best bet but can’t serve very high energy requirements. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with LG Energy Solutions, may have solved our requirement of energy-dense batteries by developing a solid-state battery with a silicon anode.

Lithium-ion batteries use graphite coated in copper foil, as their anodes or negative electrode. While this system does work well, future applications such as electric-powered flight and energy storage for grids require batteries with high energy densities. Scientists around the globe are working to resolve this issue and ubiquitous silicon is a potential answer.

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Sep 24, 2021

Our Universe Could Be An Expanding Bubble in an Extra Dimension

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Circa 2019

Livescience.com | By LIVESCIENCE


Is our universe sitting on the edge of an expanding bubble?

Sep 23, 2021

Endless Creation Out of Nothing

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Circa 2020 o.o


Could our universe have been an experiment by an ancient civilization?

Sep 22, 2021

Single Cells Evolve Large Multicellular Forms in Just Two Years

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It’s easy for us, as the vast architectures of cells that we are, to take it for granted that multicellularity is an unqualified advantage. But as far as we can tell from fossils, life seems to have been cheerfully unicellular for its first billion years. And even today, there are far more unicellular organisms than multicellular ones on the planet.


Researchers have discovered that environments favoring clumpy growth are all that’s needed to quickly transform single-celled yeast into complex multicellular organisms.

Sep 22, 2021

Urban Aeronautics ‘CityHawk’ Is World’s First Hydrogen-Powered eVTOL Vehicle

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Israel’s Urban Aeronautics is the latest to enter the growing Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) airspace with an aircraft that, at the very least, has a pretty cool name.

The “CityHawk” has been referred by Autoevolution as the “world’s first wingless” eVTOL vehicle. The rotors of other flying EVs like the Volocopter 2X and New Future Transportation ASKA protrude from body. But the CityHawk’s “Fancraft” system features two, counter-rotating ducted rotors partially enclosed behind and in front of the cockpit.

Sep 22, 2021

‘Amazon One’ Contactless Payment Palm Reader Debuts On Santana Row In San Jose

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SAN JOSE (KPIX) — Online shopping giant Amazon is ramping up deployment of its non-contact payment dubbed, “Amazon One,” announcing more than 60 locations from New York to California will feature the touchless devices.

The first such system debuted in the Bay Area at the Amazon store in San Jose on Santana Row, Tuesday morning.