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Apr 15, 2021

Evidence Mars May Have Been Alive — and May Yet Harbor Some Life

Posted by in categories: food, habitats, space

Was Mars green? Evidence Mars may have been alive — and may yet harbor some life deep underground.

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Apr 15, 2021

Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This is one of the major problems in medicine — organ transplantation,” said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, Calif., and a co-author of the Cell study. “The demand for that is much higher than the supply.


An international team has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry about how such research could go wrong.

Apr 15, 2021

5 Undersung Harbingers Of Earth’s Ancient Evolution

Posted by in category: evolution

New book offers unique perspective on Earth’s history.

Apr 15, 2021

YIKES! Hackers flood the web with 100,000 pages offering malicious PDFs

Posted by in category: internet

Hackers Flood the Internet With 100000 Malicious PDF Documents.

Apr 15, 2021

New JavaScript Exploit Can Now Carry Out DDR4 Rowhammer Attacks

Posted by in category: futurism

Hackers can now use a JavaScript exploit to trigger Rowhammer attacks remotely on modern DDR4 RAM cards.

Apr 15, 2021

Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch 2 New In-the-Wild 0-Day Exploits

Posted by in categories: computing, security

Google patches two security vulnerabilities in Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux, both of which it says are under active exploitation.

Apr 15, 2021

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

Posted by in category: privacy

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 – NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers.

Apr 15, 2021

Thousands of devices infected with the SolarMarket Trojan via malicious websites

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

A recent report notes that a hacking group is employing search engine optimization (SEO) tactics to trick users into attracting them to over 100000 legitimate-looking malicious websites through the Google browser.

The goal of this campaign is to install a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) on vulnerable devices, which would allow the deployment of subsequent attacks and infections. The eSentire signature experts detected this campaign, mentioning that malicious web pages appear in browser results when the user searches for terms related to invoices, receipts, questionnaires and resume.

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Apr 15, 2021

Bisphenols exert detrimental effects on neuronal signaling in mature vertebrate brains

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Elisabeth Schirmer, Stefan Schuster and Peter Machnik investigated the effects of bisphenols A and S on neuronal functioning. Using in vivo recordings in goldfish they demonstrate that basic neuronal properties such as action potentials and synaptic transmission are perturbed after chronic exposure to bisphenols.

Apr 15, 2021

Music-selective neural populations arise without musical training

Posted by in categories: media & arts, neuroscience

Recent work has shown that human auditory cortex contains neural populations anterior and posterior to primary auditory cortex that respond selectively to music. However, it is unknown how this selectivity for music arises. To test whether musical training is necessary, we measured fMRI responses to 192 natural sounds in 10 people with almost no musical training. When voxel responses were decomposed into underlying components, this group exhibited a music-selective component that was very similar in response profile and anatomical distribution to that previously seen in individuals with moderate musical training. We also found that musical genres that were less familiar to our participants (e.g., Balinese gamelan) produced strong responses within the music component, as did drum clips with rhythm but little melody, suggesting that these neural populations are broadly responsive to music as a whole. Our findings demonstrate that the signature properties of neural music selectivity do not require musical training to develop, showing that the music-selective neural populations are a fundamental and widespread property of the human brain.

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