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Our brains underestimate our wrist’s true flexibility, study finds

Researchers have found that people systematically underestimate how far their wrists can move. This finding suggests that the brain’s internal representation of the body’s movement range is not as accurate as one might assume. The study, published in Communications Psychology,…

Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot

In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect Windows devices against the threat of malware that could infect the BIOS and, later, its predecessor the UEFI, the firmware that loaded the operating system…

Let’s learn about the International Space Station

The International Space Station, or ISS, is one of humanity’s most remote outposts. Space agencies around the world teamed up in the 1980s and 1990s to construct this distant laboratory. Pieces of the station were built in different countries and…