Since 2018, data protection laws have reduced security breaches but affected firms’ value

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The introduction of new data protection rules significantly reduced breaches by firms but negatively impacted their market value, according to new research by the University of…

Improving HIV treatment in children and adolescents, the right way

Blood samples from patients for viral load and HIV resistance testing. Credit: Christian Heuss, SolidarMed Globally, around 2.6 million children and adolescents are currently living with HIV, the majority of…

Trusted TV doctors ‘deepfaked’ to promote health scams on social media

Credit: AI-generated image Some of the UK’s most recognizable TV doctors are increasingly being “deepfaked” in videos to sell scam products across social media, finds The BMJ today. Trusted names…

Archaeologists discover traces of Roman circus at Iruña-Veleia

Archaeologists from ARKIKUS have announced the discovery of a Roman circus at Iruña-Veleia, a former Roman town in Hispania, now located in the province of Álava, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.…

New Technique Shows Promise in Fighting Brain Cancer

Summary: Researchers developed a new method, burst sine wave electroporation (B-SWE), to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumor. B-SWE disrupts the blood-brain barrier more effectively than traditional methods, allowing cancer…

Archaeologists make new discoveries at Bodbury Ring hillfort

Bodbury Ring is a univallate hillfort, strategically located at the southern tip of Bodbury Hill in Shropshire, England. Hillforts in Britain are known from the Bronze Age, but the main…

A huge race is on to develop quantum technologies; the time to discuss risks is now

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The goal is to recognize “the importance of quantum science and…

Engineers build optical elements for the Coronagraph Instrument of the Roman Space Telescope

Artist’s impression of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The actively cooled primary mirror has a diameter of 2.4 metres. It is a copy of the primary mirror of the…

Entangled photons enable Raman spectroscopy

Signal spectrum from the high-speed camera for PBI molecules. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01492-4 ‘High-speed camera’ for molecules Certain molecular systems exhibit ultrafast processes, such as electron…

A new approach to accelerate the discovery of quantum materials

This image shows the cobalt defect fabricated by the study team. The green and yellow circles are tungsten and sulfur atoms that make up a 2D tungsten disulfide sample. The…