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Our latest research has found that clickable links on websites can often be redirected to malicious destinations. We call these “hijackable hyperlinks” and have found them by the millions across the whole of the web, including on trusted websites. Our paper, published at the 2024 Web Conference, shows that cybersecurity threats on the web can

The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. NASA will […] The post Super Press Release Test appeared first on SpaceNews. View original source here.

The ‘cool kids’ have always been portrayed as a fun-loving, risk-taking bunch, and a new study suggests this may have some basis in fact – for adolescents back in the 90s, at least. Economist Colin Peter Green from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with University of Sheffield health economist Luke B. Wilson and

Wherever the JWST looks in space, matter and energy are interacting in spectacular displays. The Webb reveals more detail in these interactions than any other telescope because it can see through dense gas and dust that cloak many objects. In a new image, the JWST spots a young protostar only 100,000 years old. The star

The World Meteorological Organization, which is tracking Hurricane Beryl’s deadly course through the Caribbean, told AFP that more storms with its hallmarks could be expected in the future. The WMO, the United Nations’ weather and climate agency, said the record-breaking tropical cyclone intensified rapidly, picking up energy over a warmer Atlantic Ocean and developing into

Swimmers battling for gold at this month’s Paris Olympics are banking on the latest cutting-edge swimsuits to be their secret weapon in the pool. Competitors believe innovation can be the difference in a sport where medals are sometimes decided by a mere fingertip, although the evidence is not so sure. Driven by technology that takes

Updated 8:25 p.m. Eastern with post-launch statement. TOKYO — Firefly Aerospace placed eight cubesats into orbit on a mission funded by NASA on the first flight of the company’s Alpha rocket since an upper stage malfunction more than half a year ago. The Alpha rocket lifted off from a foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base in

Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized. Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and

The face of the Moon is famous for its grey, pockmarked complexion, but did you know that if you turn a telescope to our planet’s neighboring satellite, you will also see bright patches blemishing the surface? Ever since these quirky features known as lunar swirls were first spotted way back in the 1600s, scientists have

When Hurricane Beryl hit the Grenadine Islands on July 1, its 150 mph winds and awesome storm surge made it the earliest category 5 storm (the most destructive grade on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale) the tropical Atlantic has seen. An active hurricane season in 2024 was forecast well in advance. However, the speed at

Little more than a handful of corroded bronze wheels and heavily encrusted gears now remains of the ancient artifact called the Antikythera mechanism, leaving archaeologists to speculate over its functionality and purpose. After decades of study, it’s largely agreed that the millennia-old device was something of an analog computer capable of keeping track of celestial

HELSINKI — Chinese commercial satellite maker MinoSpace has secured more than $137 million to further its design and production aspirations. MinoSpace, also known as Beijing Weina Star Technology Co., Ltd., announced the funding June 24, now describing itself as a commercial space unicorn enterprise, having secured 1 billion yuan ($137 million). Wuxi Economic Development Zone

Whether you’re left, right or ambidextrous, “handedness” is part of our identity. But a lot of people don’t realise that we have other biases too and they are not unique to humans. My colleagues and I have published a new study that shows aligning our biases in the same way as other people may have

As bristling with volcanoes as a porcupine with quills, Jupiter‘s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. At any given time, around 150 of the 400 or so active volcanoes on Io are erupting. It’s constantly spewing out lava and gas; a veritable factory of volcanic excretions. And, thanks to

It feels like we are getting used to the Earth being on fire. Recently, more than 70 wildfires burned simultaneously in Greece. In early 2024, Chile suffered its worst wildfire season in history, with more than 130 people killed. Last year, Canada’s record-breaking wildfires burned from March to November and, in August, flames devastated the

TAMPA, Fla. — Europe must improve how it allocates capital for the space industry to avoid missing out on the fruits of rising early-stage investments, the head of Luxembourg-based private equity firm NewSpace Capital has warned. Recently published research from the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) shows Europe averaged 96 investment deals annually for space

In the charcoaled remains of fires that smoldered more than 10,000 years ago, archaeologists have found evidence of what may be the longest continuing ritual – shared across generations of Indigenous Australians since the end of the last ice age to this day. The ancestral lands of the GunaiKurnai Aboriginal people lie in the foothills

NASA scientists have discovered something of an alphabet soup in the ionosphere, the part of Earth’s atmosphere that sits about 48–965 kilometers (30–600 miles) above our heads – and the finding could help improve space weather forecasts and radio communications. Shapes like this have been detected before, but the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and

Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean on Sunday as residents were urged to hurry and finish preparations ahead of the expected landfall overnight of the “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm – the first ever recorded in June. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned residents that Beryl – currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean

WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are examining how to alter the Dragon spacecraft’s reentry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches the ground. On several occasions, debris from trunk sections of Dragon spacecraft, which are jettisoned from the capsule before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been

Some time deep in our evolutionary past, most likely more than once, a significant amount of Neanderthal DNA became mixed in with our own, influencing everything from how we now fight illness to even our appearance. A new study by researchers from Clemson University and Loyola University in the US now suggests that some of

The shape of the Solar System was once a little more on the doughy side. Before it arranged itself into a flattened disk, the distribution of dust and rocks had more in common with a donut than a pancake. This is the conclusion scientists reached after studying iron meteorites from the outer Solar System, finding

WASHINGTON — European weather satellite operator Eumetsat has shifted the upcoming launch of a weather satellite from an Ariane 6 to a Falcon 9, a move that surprised and frustrated European space officials. In a statement late June 28, Eumetsat said the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) geostationary weather satellite will now launch on a

Even 4,000 years ago, people in the Mediterranean knew what was good for them. A new study found ancient Syrians ate similarly to what we now call the Mediterranean diet, which is today touted for its many health benefits. “The old phrase ‘you are what you eat’ really is true here,” University of Leuven archeological

For some planets, the meteorite bombardment just never stops. New analysis of data collected by a seismometer on Mars has revealed that space rocks slam into the red planet far more frequently than we ever suspected. In fact, it seems Mars is copping an absolute thrashing. Based on the number of nearby impact-related tremors detected

A major solution to the climate crisis may lie at the bottom of the ocean. Across the planet, basalt rock deposits on the sea floor have the potential to trap carbon dioxide, removing the heat-trapping gas from our atmosphere. That’s why a team of scientists wants to build floating rigs at strategic offshore locations. Rather

This terrifying monstrosity of a grin resulting from a new method to fix human skin tissue to robot ‘faces’, brings us a step closer to making them more like flesh and blood human beings. There is a serious side to this: this kind of technology can help make robots more mobile and better able to

WASHINGTON — A Russian inspector satellite known as Luch 2 is on the move again, continuing its pattern of unusual maneuvers that have raised eyebrows in the space intelligence community, the space tracking firm Slingshot Aerospace said June 27. Slingshot reports that the satellite, which has been in orbit for just over a year, has

Cash has served us well for over 3,000 years – with shells the forerunners to coins and notes – but we’re now seeing a definite shift to electronic payments in developed nations. According to a new study, cashless payments are making us spend more than before, too. A team from the University of Adelaide and

Two rare asteroids will zoom past Earth at close range this week, within just 42 hours of each other. Due to their size and trajectory, both of these space rocks are labeled “potentially hazardous.” But that doesn’t mean they pose an immediate threat to Earth. In fact, both of them will safely fly by at