As Internet users, we’ve all been forced to grow accustomed to many things: Spam, phishing, malware, trolls baiting us for sport, continual invasion of privacy — it looks like being unwitting guinea pigs for social media science is next on the list. You probably remember when Facebook’s intentional manipulation of user emotions recently... Read More
If all goes as planned, the world will soon have a vaccine for malaria, the infectious disease carried by mosquitoes that causes fever, severe headaches, comas, and death. The results of an ongoing study by GlaxoSmithKline vaccine trial have shown that it could prevent the disease in babies and children for up to almost two years. What... Read More
You probably spend a little time every day protecting your online privacy — when you tell your Internet browser not to remember passwords or discreetly use your body to hide the keyboard when you log in to your money-management systems. But have you become lax in protecting your tangible assets as well?
Most people haven’t yet heard of... Read More
As we've noted before, honey bees have been dying by the thousands, and it's a big problem for the United States and its food supply. We depend on bees to pollinate our food supplies, and when they don't, crops suffer. When crops don't yield much product, the price of that product goes sky high. It's a cycle that won't be fun for anyone,... Read More
