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Scientists Solve 60-Year-Old Mystery of Strange Magnetic Surges Above the Moon
Strange magnetic surges above the Moon have baffled scientists for years. A new model points to an unexpected plasma interaction as the culprit.
Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin
A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution.
Identified as CVE-2026–0740, the issue is currently exploited in attacks. According to WordPress security company Defiant, its Wordfence firewall blocked more than 3,600 attacks over the past 24 hours.
With over 600,000 downloads, Ninja Forms is a popular WordPress form builder that lets users create forms without coding using a drag-and-drop interface. Its File Upload extension, included in the same suite, serves 90,000 customers.
Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity
Non-invasive ultrasound study reveals causal role of the amygdala in interpreting uncertain emotions.
Scientists at the University of Oxford have demonstrated, for the first time, that a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous social cues.
In a new study, published in Neuron, researchers used low-intensity focused ultrasound to temporarily and non-invasively alter activity in the amygdala — a region known to be involved in emotion and affected in depression. They found that this changed how people responded to facial expressions, particularly when those expressions were emotionally unclear.