The CyberAv3ngers, a group known to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been running cyberattacks on digital devices called programmable logic controllers that are common in U.S. municipal water and sewage processing systems as well as in equipment in energy, healthcare, and food and beverage manufacture, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed.
Tag: Science
VITAMIN B12 IS KEY FOR OPTIMAL TISSUE REGENERATION
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is required for healthy nerve function and the synthesis of red blood cells and DNA. B vitamins are also important for healthy immune function, which is your first line of defense against all diseases
MOBILE BATTERY POD RECHARGES WITH A KITE
Kitepower, a spin-off from the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology, is marketing something called The Hawk, a bank of batteries packed into a mobile shipping container and that is recharged by flying a kite.
ELECTRIC NANOCURRENT KILLS CANCER CELLS
Glioblastoma is a particularly virulent form of cancer that typically kills its victims within 12 months of being diagnosed because it’s so hard to treat.
AN EV MOTOR FREE OF RARE EARTH METALS
Among electric vehicles’ (EVs’) various supply issues, one sticky one is the need for rare earth metals in the permanent magnets that make their motors spin.
SYN CENTURY: HOW SCIENTISM MEDIATES EVERY ASPECT OF MODERN EXPERIENCE
It’s hard to overstate how every facet of modern life is now being infected with the idea that (supposed) innovations of science must mediate and improve our experience.
NEW WAY TO USE COPPER PROMISES CHEAPER DRUGS
Copper can ease the pain of arthritis and fight infections, but now it also may deliver far cheaper pharmaceuticals, thanks to a discovery by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
HYDROGEN’S DILEMMA: BETTER PERFORMANCE BUT YEARS BEHIND
For big rigs hauling heavy loads over long distances, hydrogen is a better clean fuel than electric batteries, fleet operators say, because the trucks are not also hauling a literal ton of electric power supply.
LINK FOUND BETWEEN MICROPLASTICS AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE
It’s not news that microscopic plastic particles litter our environment, being found atop Mount Everest and in the depths of the oceans.
SCIENCE FINDS ANOTHER MAGIC BULLET AGAINST AGING
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have found another molecule that shows strong powers to slow, and for some people reverse, the unhappy symptoms of aging.