3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (150+ words) In today's digital age, personal data is constantly generated through emails, online searches, banking, medical records and more. Many countries have enacted laws to safeguard personal information, .. . The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health Security credentials inadvertently…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (300+ words) The maths problems that secure your online bank transactions and emails may soon be undermined by quantum technology. It's imperative we act now, before it's too late Something very bad is going to happen in the near future unless we…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (700+ words) Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi stories depicting just that, but what is the real risk? Matthew Sparkes looks at what the experts say Isaac Asimov's three…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (325+ words) AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, and subsequent animal tests suggests it may be right Viral RNA relies on an enzyme to replicate, which offers up a target…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (781+ words) Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought Google's Willow quantum computer A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (224+ words) Researchers identified nearly 10, 000 websites where API keys could be found, exposing details that could let attackers access sensitive information Leaked keys could have let attackers take control of a company's digital infrastructure Critical security credentials are inadvertently being exposed on…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (289+ words) There are a few simple things you can do to make your digital life much more secure, says cybersecurity expert Jake Moore - follow these tips to tighten up your passwords Passwords are both a curse and a blessing Even with…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (615+ words) Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data Close-up of a piece of glass with Microsoft Flight Simulator map data written into…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (619+ words) A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organisms Illustration of a mimivirus, a kind…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (686+ words) Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing their RNA genome could let us trace the evolution of human illness Historic anatomical preparations from the late 1700s in the Hunterian Anatomy Museum A cold virus that…...