JWST unlocks 10-billion-year mystery of how galaxies shape themselves
Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar…
Dark matter acts surprisingly normal in a new cosmic test
Does dark matter behave according to the same physical rules that apply to ordinary matter? This question remains one of the major puzzles in modern cosmology, since this invisible form of matter (which neither emits nor reflects any light) is still hypothetical and extremely difficult to study directly. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…
SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2025, (Sun, Nov 16th)
The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge™ 2025 is available. Source link
Finger.exe & ClickFix – SANS Internet Storm Center
The finger.exe command is used in ClickFix attacks. finger is a very old UNIX command, that was converted to a Windows executable years ago, and is part of Windows since then. In the ClickFix attacks, it is used to retrieve a malicious script via the finger protocol. We wrote about finger.exe about 3 years ago:…
Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected
Intense flooding has significantly reduced rice harvests around the world in recent decades, putting at risk the food supply of billions of people who rely on the grain as a dietary staple. Between 1980 and 2015, annual losses averaged about 4.3%, or roughly 18 million tons of rice each year, according to Stanford University research…
Smoking cannabis with tobacco may disrupt the brain’s “bliss molecule”
People who use both cannabis and tobacco show measurable differences in brain activity compared to those who rely solely on cannabis, according to new findings from a McGill University team at the Douglas Research Centre. These results may help clarify why people who combine the two substances more often experience symptoms such as anxiety and…
'I didn't tell anyone about my medical cannabis prescription'
More than 50,000 people in the UK each month get a private prescription for medical cannabis. Source link
Thousands take to streets of Glasgow to highlight 'climate emergency'
Demonstrators marched through the city centre on a day of global action to coincide with the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. Source link
55-million-year-old fossils reveal bizarre crocs that dropped from trees
The oldest known crocodile eggshells ever identified in Australia are giving UNSW researchers fresh insight into long vanished animals and the environments they depended on. These remains come from creatures that lived millions of years before the continent separated from the landmasses that became Antarctica and South America. In the small southeast QLD town of…
Ancient Chinese tombs reveal a hidden 4,000-year pattern
Tombs found throughout China, built from the time of the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty to the present day, offer insight into long-term social and political trends. This conclusion comes from a study published October 29, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Quanbao Ma of the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China,…
Scientists melt early protein clumps and shut down Alzheimer’s damage
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have turned to concepts from polymer physics to better understand a central feature of Alzheimer’s disease: the formation of tau protein fibrils. Their work revealed that these fibrils do not appear suddenly. Instead, they emerge after large clusters of tau proteins begin to gather in solution, a process that resembles…
