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New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.

Crows recently demonstrated an understanding of the concept of zero. It’s only the latest evidence of animals’ talents for numerical abstraction — which may still differ from our own grasp of numbers.

When Steven Weinberg died last month, the world lost one of its most profound thinkers.

Coupon codes for Netlifx or Google AdWords? Voting for the best football team? Beware: Malicious apps offering such come-ons could inflict a new trojan.

A dump of hundreds of thousands of active accounts is aimed at promoting AllWorld.Cards, a recently launched cybercriminal site for selling payment credentials online.

One school using the software saw that a student’s face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week

A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum.

The ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting the Afghan government uses Dropbox as an API that leaves no traces of communications with weirdo websites.

They're not as famous as Darwin or Curie, but these heroes made our lives better through groundbreaking achievements.

Threat actors have so far made about $2 million from Crackonosh, which secretly mines Monero cryptocurrency from affected devices.

Four separate security bugs would give attackers almost complete control and persistence over targeted devices, thanks to a faulty update mechanism.

For all their triumphs, AI systems can’t seem to generalize the concepts of “same” and “different.” Without that, researchers worry, the quest to create truly intelligent machines may be hopeless.

DNA from ancient soil reveals the history of the cave that cracked open the field of human evolution