Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from…
Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the…
NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic IntelligenceÂ
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the Integrated Mobile Evaluation Testbed for Robotics Operations facility at Johnson Space Center, PickNik robotic control software proved…
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the…
Three key vital signs make up the “urban pulse” of a city
People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction…
High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character
Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the…
Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it
Gold is weird. It’s one of the few metals that doesn’t really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides. Naively, you might expect…
FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation
The Federal Communications Commission has waived a requirement for Amazon to launch half of its satellite broadband constellation by the end of July, a key regulatory reprieve that buys the…
Your empty cuppa could capture carbon
Humanity has littered the sky with the refuse of fossil fuel use, releasing enough CO2 to change the planet’s climate. We are also chucking incredible sums of carbon in the…