Why broken crystals are stronger
Crystals are known far and wide for their beauty and elegance. But even though they…
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Increasing Searches for ZIP Files
I noticed recently that we have more and more requests for ZIP files in our web honeypot logs. Over the last year, we have had a substantial increase in these requests. Here are some of the most common URLs requested so far this year: url c …
Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?
“In 2050 … the first 100 m-diameter telescope took shape in a crater on the lunar surface” Vladimir Vustyansky/NASA The All-Seeing Eye, which came into operation in the 2070s, was by far the largest and most powerful optical instrument ever built. Comprising eight telescopes built across the entire lunar surface, each with a 100-metre-diameter mirror,…
A tiny chip may have solved one of clean energy’s biggest problems
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in the production of clean hydrogen fuels. Now, a powerful new tool has found one — within a single afternoon. Invented and developed at Northwestern University, that tool is called a megalibrary. The world’s first nanomaterial…
Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA
Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or…
Chasing the Silver Fox: Cat & Mouse in Kernel Shadows
Highlights: Check Point Research (CPR) uncovered an ongoing in-the-wild campaign attributed to the Silver Fox APT which involves the abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver, amsdk.sys (WatchDog Antimalware, version 1.0.600). This driver, built on the Zemana Anti-Malware SDK, was Microsoft-signed, not listed in the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, and not detected by community projects like LOLDrivers. The attackers leveraged this unknown…
Croydon incinerator broke pollution limits 916 times in two years
Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC News Getty Images Beddington incinerator has breached its environmental permits on 916 occasions Beddington incinerator, which serves four south London councils, faces enforcement from the Environment Agency after exceeding air pollution limits on 916 occasions. The offences, which occurred between 2022 and 2024 at the energy-from-waste plant, were revealed…
This simple diet could help protect memory, even with Alzheimer’s genes
Researchers found dietary changes may help improve cognitive health and stave off dementia. A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard suggests that a Mediterranean-style diet may help reduce dementia risk. The study, published in Nature Medicine, found…
Better Prompting May Help Reduce AI Hallucinations, False Vaccine Claims Spread, and Industrial Solvent Promoted as Hidden Cancer Cure — The Monitor
VOLUME 29 August 28, 2025 Summary This volume highlights new research showing that certain prompting techniques can help reduce the risk of AI chatbots amplifying false medical information when users include fabricated terms in their queries. It also examines false claims linking vaccines to sudden infant death syndrome and the promotion of the industrial solvent…
record burning in Spain and Portugal
Elizabeth DawsonBBC News and Erwan RivaultData Designer, BBC Verify Copernicus Unprecedented wildfires have scarred northern Spain in recent weeks A record one million hectares – equivalent to about half the land area of Wales – have burned across the European Union so far this year, making it the worst wildfire season since records began in…
