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The moon drifts away. Every year it gets about an inch and a half away from us. Hundreds of millions of years from now, our companion in the sky will be so far away that there will be no more total solar eclipses. For decades, scientists measured the retreat of …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain “Alexa, who’s hacking into my system?” More than 200 million Amazon Echo, Dot and Show owners are unlikely to get an answer from the popular personal assistants, but it is a question they can ask themselves. Investigators from security company Check Point reported Thursday …

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NEW DELHI: In what could be an important step forward space exploration, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) en Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) has a sustainable process for making brick-like structures on the moon. It exploits moon soil and uses bacteria and guar gum …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus challenges a decades-old hypothesis about adaptation, an important function in how sensory cells of the inner ear (hair cells) detect sound. The paper, out today Science Advances, investigates how hair cells transform mechanical …