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Image via Wikipedia The computer systems used to control modern cars are very vulnerable to attack, say experts. An investigation by security researchers found the systems to be “fragile” and easily subverted. The researchers showed how to kill a car engine remotely, turn off the brakes so the car would not stop and make instruments

Thousands of new immune system signals have been uncovered with potential implications for immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases and vaccine development. The researchers behind the finding say it is the biological equivalent of discovering a new continent. It’s as if a geographer would tell you they had discovered a new continent, or an astronomer would say they

The slightest variation in a sequence of DNA can have profound effects. Modern genomics has shown that just one mutation can be the difference between successfully treating a disease and having it spread rampantly throughout the body. Now, researchers have developed a new method that can look at a specific segment of DNA and pinpoint

Image by Getty Images via Daylife THE inability to explain the May 6th stock-market plunge shows just how difficult it is to predict—and then reconstruct afterwards—behaviour caused by bizarre combinations of unlikely events. In his 2007 best-seller “The Black Swan”, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that such excursions from the normal have three things in common:

University of Groningen physicists have managed to alter the flow of spin waves through a magnet, using only an electrical current. This is a huge step towards the spin transistor that is needed to construct spintronic devices. These promise to be much more energy efficient than conventional electronics. The results were published on 2 March

  Paul Graham has written one of his typically worth-reading essays about why Yahoo! went from the darling of the internet world in the mid- to late-90’s to whatever it is today (an also-ran’s also-ran). I don’t have much to say on the main point of the essay, so if you’re interested in that, go

Today, the journal Science published the latest development in Michael Grätzel’s laboratory at EPFL: producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water. By combining a pair of solar cells made with a mineral called perovskite and low cost electrodes, scientists have obtained a 12.3 percent conversion efficiency from solar energy to hydrogen, a record using earth-abundant

The all-electric Tesla Roadster is indeed a fine-looking, high-performance automobile, but its projected $US109,000 price tag will likely put it out of reach of the much sought-after Generation Y demographic. Tesla’s less-pricey Model S four-door sedan is more of a refined, subtly-classy car – again, not something the fun-loving twenty-somethings will be flocking to. So,