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Statin drugs are commonly taken to help manage cholesterol levels, and they have a good track record of preventing heart attacks and strokes in at-risk patients. But now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that they may also kill some can… Continue reading Cell studies suggest statins starve cancer of nutrients
Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public’s attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however, cybercrooks have started disseminating real-time, accurate information about global infection rates tied to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to infect computers with malicious software. Continue reading Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware
A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is affirming early estimates suggesting 5.1 days is the average incubation period for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbein… Continue reading Study affirms average Covid-19 incubation period is 5 days
Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency. This month also marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7, a still broadly-used operating system that will no longer be supplied with security updates. Continue reading Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition
The company acknowledged it’s using ‘safe browsing’ technology from Tencent, which has ties to the Chinese government. Continue reading Apple Shares Some Browsing History with Chinese Company
Few things are as mysterious as dark matter, the strange substance that appears to outnumber ordinary matter by a ratio of five to one. Now, a physicist from Johns Hopkins University has outlined a new theory that helps to explain the stuff b… Continue reading Did dark matter arise before the Big Bang?
I was the final volunteer in the world’s first brain imaging study on salvia divinorum. Continue reading What It’s Like to Smoke Salvia for Science
For all the advances in medical diagnostics made over the last two centuries of modern medicine, from the ability to peer deep inside the body with the help of superconducting magnets to harnessing the power of molecular biology, it seems strange that the enduring symbol of the medical profession is …read more
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LSD appears to cause information to disintegrate as it is passed through a neural circuit that determines how we process internal and external stimuli. Continue reading Scientists Identify Key Neural Mechanisms Behind an LSD Trip
Apple updated iOS to version 9.3 yesterday, and you’ll definitely want to get the update based on the security fixes alone. Continue reading Update to iOS 9.3 now to secure your iMessages