Nanofiber Membrane Filters 99.9% of Salt from Seawater within Minutes The nanofiber membrane upheld a 99.9% salt rejection rate for a month. By Ameya Paleja Jul 06, 2021 Schematic of the electrospinning device used to make this nanofiber membraneElsevier The World Health Organization estimates that over 785 million people…
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New technology combines wood, bacteria, sunlight to purify water By Brooks Hays The new water-purification device features a top layer of light-absorbing carbon nanotubes, a middle layer of insulating glass bubbles and a bottom layer water-transporting wood. Photo by Qing-Fang Guan, et al. / Nano Letters 2020 July 8 (UPI) — Engineers have developed…
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Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution ‘Dragon man’ skull reveals new branch of family tree more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals Chinese researchers have called the skull, found in Harbin in the north, Homo longi, or ‘Dragon man’, but other experts are more cautious about naming a new…
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Privilege escalation with polkit: Kevin Backhouse polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit. As a member of GitHub Security Lab, my job is to help improve the security of open source software by finding and reporting vulnerabilities. A few…
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SLS: First view of Nasa’s assembled ‘megarocket’ By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Published12 June Share Related Topics Artemis IMAGE COPYRIGHTNASAimage captionThe core stage and twin booster rockets stand taller than the Statue of Liberty (minus its pedestal) Nasa has assembled the first of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rockets, which will…
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Colonial Pipeline investigation upends idea that Bitcoin is untraceable June 9, 2021 at 4:35 pm Updated June 9, 2021 at 7:28 pm People mill about outside the Bitcoin 2021 confab in Miami on June 4. The FBI’s recovery of bitcoins paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware… (Alfonso Duran / The New York Times) More Skip Ad…
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Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence There is a surprising correlation between baseline pupil size and several measures of cognitive ability By Jason S. Tsukahara, Alexander P. Burgoyne, Randall W. Engle on June 2, 2021 Credit: Erik Von Weber Getty Images It has been said that “the eyes are the window to the soul,” but new research suggests…
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Explained: Aducanumab, new drug for Alzheimer’s disease and row over approval Early in November 2020, the drug was denied approval after a marathon seven-hour long virtual meeting with the federal medical panel disagreeing with the claims. ADVERTISEMENT India Today Web Desk New Delhi June 9, 2021 UPDATED: June 9, 2021 16:55 IST Aducanumab…
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Facebook’s AI treats Palestinian activists like it treats American Black activists. It blocks them. Elizabeth Dwoskin, Gerrit De Vynck 3 days ago Like| 12 Liberal Media Scream: ‘Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them’ 100 bullets fired in mass shooting that left 2 dead, 20 hurt at birthday…
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Mismanaging COVID, anti-culture reforms: Why Lakshadweep administrator Praful Patel is target of public outcry IndiaTimes Now DigitalUpdated May 26, 2021 | 11:52 IST Patel has drafted a series of reforms that have caused widespread resentment among the islands’ constituents. The idyllic islands of Lakshadweep. | Photo Credit: Twitter KEY HIGHLIGHTS At the heart of this resentment is…
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