As the ransomware industry evolves, experts are predicting hackers will only continue to find more and more ways of using the technology to exploit businesses and individuals. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images Ransomware is now a billion-dollar industry. But it wasn’t always that large — nor was it the prevalent cybersecurity risk it […]
Somehow Challengers, Dune: Part Two, Wicked, Furiosa, It Ends With Us, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice were all released in 2024. This year was jam-packed with method dressing, the phenomenon of actors coordinating their fashion to a character or film. While it’s really only been in full swing for two years now, method […]
Fish-friendly dentistry: New method makes oral research non-lethal. Credit: Wibisana et al., 2024 Can we examine the teeth of living fish and other vertebrates in detail, repeatedly over time, without harming them? Previously, small animals often had to be euthanized to obtain precise information, but now scientists have found a new way to humanely study […]
Timo McGregor. Credit: Elif Kırankaya When discussing enslavement, attention often focuses on Africans forcibly shipped to South America. Researcher Timo McGregor’s new Veni research sheds light on a lesser-known method, whereby indigenous populations were enslaved through the households of colonizers. Officially, the indigenous populations of most colonies were exempt from slavery. It could be inconvenient […]
PELSA allows for systematic analysis of ligand-binding proteins, their binding sites, and local binding affinities in cell lysate. Credit: LI Kejia In a study published in Nature Methodsa research group developed a highly sensitive proteomics method called peptide-centric local stability assay (PELSA), which enables the simultaneous identification of ligand-binding proteins and their binding sites in […]
Illustration of the electrocatalytic conversion of acetylene (C2H2) to 1,3-butadiene (C4H6) on copper catalysts. The process involves the adsorption of acetylene molecules onto the catalyst surface, followed by hydrogenation and coupling of *C₂H₂ and *C₂H₃ intermediates, leading to the formation of 1,3-butadiene, which is subsequently desorbed. Credit: Nature Catalysis (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01250-0 Chemists from the […]
Taking on the role of Bob Dylan for James Mangold’s A Complete UnknownTimothée Chalamet sang Dylan’s songs so well that people on set debated whether he was lip-syncing or not. He also used a method approach to staying immersed in his role. In Chalamet’s Rolling Stone cover story published Monday, the actor’s co-star Elle Fanning […]
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. Scientists have […]
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Doctors at Mayo Clinic used a new catheter-based approach to draw out resistant pockets of infection that settle in the heart, known as right-sided infective endocarditis, without surgery. Unless treated quickly, the walled-off infections can grow, severely damaging heart valves and potentially affecting other organs as well. In a recent study, over […]
Screenshots of www.sewagemap.co.uk focusing on rivers around Oxford. The brown lines are rivers and streams downstream of recent sewage spills. Taken on 10 October 2024 after a period of wet weather. Credit: Alex Lipp. A new computational method developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London uses an innovative new technique […]
