Some of Asia's largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by thriving alongside humans, a University of Queensland-led study has revealed.
Researchers scoured paleontological records to compare the historic distribution of Asia's 14 largest species with their populations in present-day tropical forests.
PhD candidate Zachary Amir, from UQ's School of Biological Sciences and the Ecological Cascades Lab, said four species – tigers, Asian elephants, wild boars and clouded leopards – showed...
Almost all liver cancers develop after decades of chronic liver disease, but a new discovery by Columbia University researchers may lead to treatments that could break the link.
The research shows that during chronic liver disease a shift in the balance of quiescent and activated stellate liver cells not only promotes fibrosis but sets the stage for the most common type of primary liver cancer, called hepatocellular carcinoma.
The findings, published online in Nature, suggest that it may be possible to prevent...
Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine after they expired, the BBC reports.
The firm stopped producing Covishield in December last year due to low demand, CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Thursday.
SII, the world's largest vaccine maker, has been making the local version of AstraZeneca's Vaxzevria jab.
Covishield accounts for more than 90% of the doses given in India.
India has administered over...
The industry executives were anxious, writes Shane Keating for the BBC.
Their company manufactured precision card-shuffling machines for casinos. Thousands of their mechanical shufflers were in operation in Las Vegas and around the world. The rental fees brought in millions of dollars each year, and the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
However, the executives had recently discovered that one of their machines had been hacked by a gang of hustlers. The gang used a hidden...
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) – Astrophysicists have performed a new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists find themselves at a crossroads.
Pantheon+ finds that the cosmos is composed of about two-thirds dark energy and one-third matter – mostly in the form of dark matter – and is expanding at an accelerating pace over the last several billion years. However, Pantheon+...
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to buy the self-styled "uncancellable" social-media platform Parler, the company has announced.
Last week, the star's Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked, after he posted anti-Semitic messages, the BBC reports.
Ye "will never have to fear being removed from social media again," chief executive George Farmer posted.
The announcement on PR Newswire reveals little about the terms of the deal.
It says: "Under the terms of their agreement in principle, the parties intend...
Teen overdose deaths have never been higher in the U.S. as young people are increasingly poisoned by the synthetic opiate fentanyl, even as fewer teens use drugs.
More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — the vast majority were adults — but the fastest growing group to die of overdoses was teenagers, the BBC reports.
Fentanyl is typically smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels. While it used to be laced...
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi-like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.
The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, NASA chief Bill Nelson said.
That changed its orbital period by 4%, or 32...
A Chinese firm tested out an electric flying taxi in Dubai on Monday, offering a glimpse of futuristic technology that could one day whisk people through cities high above any land traffic.
The XPeng X2, developed by the Guangzhou-based XPeng Inc's aviation affiliate, is one of dozens of flying-car projects around the world. Only a handful have been successfully tested with passengers on board, and it will likely be many years before any are put...
Using an off-the-shelf automotive radar sensor and a novel processing approach, Pennsylvania State University researchers demonstrated they could detect the vibrations of a cell phone's earpiece and decipher what the person on the other side of the call was saying with up to 83% accuracy.
The demonstration, available in the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), reveals a significant security concern, according to Mahanth Gowda, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and doctoral...
