Computer scientists unveil novel attacks on cybersecurity Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use. Study finds genetic basis for link between depression, heart disease A group of genes could be common to both depression and heart disease, a finding that researchers said could explain why having one of them increases risk of developing the other. The "puzzling" link between the diseases has been known to exist since the 1990s, they said. Studies have found that people with depression run a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, with early and effective treatmen… NASA astronauts arrive at Kennedy Space Center ahead of Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the Cape in T-38 jets, the first such arrival since the space shuttle era. The mission is aiming to launch on Monday, May 6, at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC). Bacteria could replace fossil fuels for making valuable chemicals Engineered bacteria could pave the way "renewable chemicals to be produced that do not burden the environment," researchers say. |
Federal Officials Find No Live Bird Flu Virus in Initial Milk Tests The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of. Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a month A 2-year-old killer whale has reached an inlet that could take it to the open ocean, after being trapped in a lagoon on Vancouver Island for more than a month. NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months |