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CISA Gave Federal Agencies Three Days to Patch an Exploited Zimbra Flaw
A three-day deadline for U.S. federal civilian agencies to fix a flaw in Zimbra's email and collaboration software fell due on Aug. 24. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the…
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Science
FDA Puts a Hunter Syndrome Gene Therapy on Hold After Spine Scan Findings
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on RGX-121, an experimental gene therapy for Hunter syndrome, and its developer says it no longer expects to resubmit the licensing…
1mo ago
AI & Technology
NVIDIA Says Its New Inference Chip for AI Agents Is in Full Production
NVIDIA said on Aug. 24 that Groq 3 LPX, an accelerator it built for AI inference, has entered full production. The company announced it at the Hot Chips conference and describes the part as an…
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Environment
Record Ocean Heat Bleached Corals Far North of Japan's Tropical Reefs
Corals bleached at seven of the eight sites surveyed along Japan's coast after the marine heatwaves of 2024, including cool temperate waters far north of the country's tropical reefs, a team led by…
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Environment
Where Trawled Fish Goes Could Change Nutrition for Millions, a Model Finds
A scenario in which every foreign bottom-trawl catch was kept for use in the country whose waters it came from would move up to 10.6 million people from inadequate to adequate nutrient intake,…
1mo ago
Environment
An Arctic Plankton Bloom Has Held Steady Through 20 Years of Shifting Sea Ice
Plankton growth in the North Water Polynya, a stretch of open water that stays clear between Greenland and Ellesmere Island while the sea around it freezes, has remained steady across 20 years of…
1mo ago
Space
Mars' Daily Pressure Cycle Shortened During a Dust Storm
Four researchers say they have extracted a planet-circling pressure wave directly from Mars weather data for the first time, using more than one Martian year of readings from the pressure sensor on…
1mo ago
Environment
Where Permafrost Thaws, 'Forever Chemical' Risk Rises, a New Map Projects
A machine-learning study published August 24 in Communications Earth & Environment places surface waters in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia and the pan-Arctic among the areas at highest…
1mo ago
Space
India's Chandrayaan-3 Orbiter Is Watching Earth Like a Distant Exoplanet
An ISRO-led team has published the design, ground testing, and in-orbit performance of SHAPE, an instrument on the Propulsion Module of India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission that observes the whole…
1mo ago
Science
ALLATRA Research Center Launches a Quarterly Natural Science Journal
ALLATRA Global Research Center has published the first issue of ALLATRA Natural Science Review, a quarterly the Center describes as an interdisciplinary journal covering the natural sciences and…
1mo ago
Science
Two Brains Fall Into Step When Strangers Draw Together, a Small Study Finds
Two people drawing together show more closely matched brain activity than when they draw alone, and that coupling moves in opposite directions over six sessions depending on whether the pair are the…
1mo ago
Science
FDA Clears a Blood Test to Help Diagnose Alzheimer's in Adults as Young as 40
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared PrecivityAD2, a blood test that helps identify the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease, its maker C2N Diagnostics said in a release…
1mo ago