Researchers from Stockholm University have — for the first time ever — managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever recovered and come from mammoth tissue preserved in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years. The study, published in the journal Cell, demonstrates…
Chimpanzees may share more with human thinkers than researchers once realized. A new study published in Science presents compelling evidence that chimpanzees can revise their beliefs in a rational way when they encounter new information. The study, titled “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs,” was carried out by an international team that included UC Berkeley Psychology…
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)…
The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge™ 2025 is available. Source link
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:…
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…
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…
More than 50,000 people in the UK each month get a private prescription for medical cannabis. Source link
Demonstrators marched through the city centre on a day of global action to coincide with the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. Source link
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…
