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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Software fixes are now responsible for more than 1 in 5 automotive recalls. That’s the key finding from a decade’s worth of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall data, according to an analysis from the law…
Enlarge / The first stage of ULA’s second Vulcan rocket was raised onto its launch platform August 11 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. (credit: United Launch Alliance) United Launch Alliance is free to compete for NASA contracts with…
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of angry PC gamers launching an attack on PSN sign-in requirements. (credit: Sony) Sony’s decision to require a PlayStation Network sign-in for the PC port of the single-player God of War Ragnarök is drawing expected levels of…
The Antarctic ozone hole usually starts forming in early August, but rare warming events and a strangely elongated polar vortex this year may have delayed its arrival.
A recent study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging sheds light on the neural differences related to identity instability traits in borderline personality disorder. By analyzing brain patterns through a technique called Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), the researchers found that individuals…
Enlarge / The Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Gen 2. (credit: Kevin Purdy) There are lots of laptops—maybe all of them—on which you can run a Linux desktop. There are a few vendors that offer laptops with extensive Linux compatibility. And then…
Meet the ‘owl slime’ amoeba, which drains its prey and spits out the shell.
The discovery of two entangled quarks at the large Hadron Collider is the highest-energy observation of entanglement ever made.
Enlarge (credit: FT) China’s demand that the public sector step up use of domestic semiconductors can best be seen within Huawei’s Qingyun L540 laptop. The “safe and reliable” device features a self-designed processor and a Chinese-made operating system, having stripped…
A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior has employed eye-tracking methods to uncover intriguing differences in how men and women evaluate online dating profiles, shedding light on the priorities each gender has when seeking potential partners. Overall, men…
