Category Archives: Science

30Jul/24

Akamai Research: Web Attacks Targeting Applications and APIs Up by 49% in the Last Year

July 30, 2024ScienceAKAM, Akamai Technologies, Akamai Technologies Inc., API, Cloud computing, Cloud infrastructure, Content delivery networksadmin

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today released a new State of the Internet (SOTI) report that shows how growth in demand for applications and APIs has transformed them into lucrative targets for threat actors. In Digital Fortresses Under Siege: Threats to Modern Application Architectures, Akamai notes that it observed more than 26 billion web attacks against applications and APIs in June 2024 alone, and that these attacks surged by 49% over the last year. Read more

15Dec/23

Kenyan digital IDs: paused again

December 15, 2023ScienceE-government, Huduma Kenya, Huduma Namba, Identity document, Kenya, Magadi, NAIROBI, Nita Bhalla, Politics and technology, Public administrationadmin

By Nita Bhalla | East Africa Correspondent

Dec 14, 2023, / Thomson Reuters Foundation/ — A high court in Kenya has halted the rollout of a new national digital identification programme, saying authorities failed to assess the risks from processing citizens’ personal data. Continue reading →

15Nov/23

How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

November 15, 2023ScienceAGES, Aristotle, Benjamin Rush, Bulgaria, Creative Commons, Dimana Kardzhieva, dopamine, Frances Rauscher, Jonathan Smallwood, Leigh Riby, Ludwig van Beethoven, Martha, Mary Priestley, Newcastle, Northumbria University, Oliver Sacks, oxytocin, Riby, Sam Fenwick, Samuel Mathews, Shania Twain, Shania: Still the One, Steve Vai, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, Thayer Gaston, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

Leigh Riby, Northumbria University, Newcastle

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I tidied up. Whenever I hear the song, I’m taken back – the sadness and anger comes flooding back.

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02Nov/23

Dr. Reed McNeil Izatt, American Chemist, Dies at 97

November 2, 2023ScienceAlexander Spowart Izatt, Izatt, Logan, Marian McNeil Izatt, McNeil, Reed McNeil Izatt, Salt Lake City, Utahadmin

Reed McNeil Izatt was born October 10, 1926, in Logan, Utah, the son of Alexander Spowart Izatt, Jr. and Marian McNeil Izatt. He died peacefully surrounded by his loving family on October 29, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Continue reading

19Jun/23

How a 400 million year old fossil changes our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature

June 19, 2023ScienceAnne Turner, Asteroxylon, Branches of biology, Branches of botany, Charles Darwin, Creative Commons, Evolutionary history of plants, Fibonacci numbers, Germany, Leaf, Leaves, Leonardo da Vinci, Luisa-Marie, Patterns in nature, Phyllotaxis, Plant morphology, Plants, Sandy Hetherington, Scotland, Spirals, United Kingdomadmin

Sandy Hetherington, The University of Edinburgh and Holly-Anne Turner, University College Cork

If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of a pineapple or the scales of a pinecone, then you have unknowingly witnessed brilliant examples of mathematical patterns in nature.

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31May/23

Kingdom Code is a scientific community

May 31, 2023ScienceAnthropic principle, Articles, Environments, Fine-tuned universe, Philosophy of science, Physical cosmology, Science, Scientific method, Universeadmin

May 31, 2023 /Lifestyle/ — Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. It is a process of discovery that involves making observations, formulating hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses through experiments.

Science can be seen as a miracle because it allows us to understand the world around us in a way that was not possible before. It has given us the ability to cure diseases, develop new technologies, and explore the universe. Continue reading →

27May/23

CAA Professor Wang Dongling Exhibition “Ink. Space. Time.” inspired by Prof. Stephen Hawking Opens at the University of Cambridge

May 27, 2023ScienceCalligraphy, Chinese art, Chinese calligraphy, Contents, Dongling, Scientists, Stephen Hawking, Wang Dongling, Writingadmin

The exhibition Ink. Space. Time. by Wang Dongling, a world-renowned calligrapher and professor at the China Academy of Art, is held at the University of Cambridge from May 25th to August 27th. The exhibition presents the artist’s monumental contemporary Chinese calligraphy work inspired by Prof. Stephen Hawking. Continue reading

23May/23

MRI scans and AI technology really could read what we’re thinking. The implications are terrifying

May 23, 2023ScienceAcademic disciplines, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Brain–computer interface, Brain–computer interfacing, Branches of biology, Computational neuroscience, Creative Commons, Cybernetics, Electroencephalography, Elon Musk, Emerging technologies, George Orwell, Imagination, Joshua Krook, Neuralink, Neurotechnology, SHUTTERSTOCK, Winston Smithadmin

Joshua Krook, University of Southampton

For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI imagery into text in an effort to understand what someone is thinking.

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08Apr/23

A professor is going to live in an underwater hotel for 100 days – here’s what it might do to his body

April 8, 2023ScienceBradley Elliott, Chemistry, Creative Commons, Critical emergency medicine, Diving medicine, Hyperbaric medicine, Immune system, Joe Dituri, Natural sciences, Oxygen, Physical sciences, Pressure, Sun tanning, Sunlight, United States, Vitamin Dadmin

Bradley Elliott, University of Westminster

As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples’ lists. But one US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri, a former US navy diver and expert in biomedical engineering has been living in a 55 square meter space 30 feet below the surface of the Florida Keys since March 1, and plans to stay for 100 days. If he manages this, he will break a record for most time spent in a habitat beneath the surface of the ocean.

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06Apr/23

Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might

April 6, 2023ScienceArticles, Creative Commons, Darwin, Einstein, Isaac Newton, Matter, Natural sciences, Outline of physics, Philosophy of physics, Philosophy of space and time, Physical cosmology, Physical sciences, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Sara Imari Walker, SHUTTERSTOCK, Time in physics, Universeadmin

Sara Imari Walker, Arizona State University

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very young and when it comes to using it to explain life, physicists struggle.

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