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The mobile security firm Zimperium published an analysis on Aug. 19 of a new build of ToxicPanda, an Android banking trojan the company says had previously concentrated on Europe. Zimperium says the…
A brewing yeast pulled from the wild, rather than engineered in a lab, can secrete more than nine times the usual amount of ornithine, a team at Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology…
Tucked inside a glowing bubble of gas roughly 26,000 light-years away, in a crowded patch of the Milky Way called Sagittarius C, a faint blue smudge of X-rays has caught astronomers' attention. They…
On paper it looks like good news for a population that has had little of it. NOAA's new estimate lands at about 17,750 gray whales, with a range of roughly 15,930 to 20,530, well above last year's…
The UK Met Office published a long-range forecast on Aug. 21 showing central tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures rising more than 3 °C in the coming months, a signal its head of long-range…
The Hills mechanism leaves two fossils, and astronomers have never been able to point at both halves of the same pair. A binary drifts too close to Sagittarius A*, the black hole of about four…
Researchers have identified four sites on a protein of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus where protective antibodies bind, and solved three crystal structures showing how the most potent of…
Platelets kept in cold storage for as long as 21 days controlled bleeding no worse than platelets stored at room temperature for up to seven days, according to a trial of 1,000 cardiac surgery…
Guidelight AI Standards published an assessment Aug. 18, scoring five companies that build frontier AI models on six practices for keeping control of those models, and awarded none of them more than…
A study published Aug. 19 in Science Advances places more than 5,800 animal genomes on a single map and reports that chromosomes rearrange along a limited set of routes that cannot be retraced,…
The carbon that Amazon forests take in and the water they give off have been moving further out of step for four decades, an analysis of 40 years of satellite data published Aug. 22 in Nature…
Cocoa expanding onto land that was already farmed in Ghana is associated with food crops being pushed into nearby protected forest reserves, and with more forest cleared inside those reserves,…