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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out...

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal...

Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn’t know cause—or how to prevent it

Still, the FDA could not determine where in the production chain the bacteria entered or how. “Even though there are several hypotheses, investigational findings...

How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

After successfully replacing the firmware with a replacement image that did nothing more than display the word “patched” on the speaker’s LED display, the...

The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

What to watch out for There are several things to keep in mind when watching the surge of robot demonstration videos and even livestreams....

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data

During oral arguments, justices expressed skepticism of AT&T and Verizon’s claims and seemed to agree that FCC fine decisions are nonbinding until enforced by...

Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says

Screwworm comeback Screwworms were once endemic to the US, but were eradicated in the 1960s amid a concerted effort to annihilate their population. This...

Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress

That doesn’t mean the error-corrected qubit was fully stable. Eventually, one of the errors that inevitably occurred couldn’t be recovered from because too many...

Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items

When the team returned to the sites, they determined which decorations had been selected from the slush pile and moved to a bower, and...

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