In English – Sivu 16

2025-05-08 @ 6.58.38 ∈ In English

Mites Are a Made-Up Taxon: New Analysis Further Debunks Long-Held Classification

What scientists know as “mites” is almost certainly an artificial taxonomic group, according to recent phylogenetic analyses and studies using advanced microscopic techniques.

2025-05-07 @ 11.03.52 ∈ In English

A recently-discovered termite terminator is better, more targeted and won’t harm humans

UC Riverside researchers have found [a chemical preventing drywood termites from growing new exoskeletons. The chemical, bistrifluron is able to kill about 95% of a termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.]

2025-05-06 @ 12.20.34 ∈ In English

(Very niche, but very good for what it is)

Flattening Rust’s Learning Curve | corrode Rust Consulting

I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust. Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process.

2025-05-02 @ 14.33.13 ∈ In English

What makes people flourish? Results from a new survey

Indonesia is thriving. […] Mexico and the Philippines also show strong results. Even though these countries have less money than some others, people report strong family ties, spiritual lives and community support.

2025-05-02 @ 14.28.55 ∈ In English

(Video via ABC News; shark footage from 0:40 onwards)

Australian locals rescue great white shark stranded in shallow water

"It was either sick or … just tired," said Core, who was visiting with his family from Gold Coast in Queensland state. "We definitely got it into some deeper water, so hopefully it's swimming still."

2025-04-30 @ 18.44.28 ∈ In English

Which arm? Where you get your vaccine booster matters

Experiments in mice revealed the key to this lies in the lymph node closest to the vaccination site, where the vaccine response is generated. A clinical study in 30 volunteers who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine confirmed that the animal results also apply to humans.

2025-04-30 @ 18.38.56 ∈ In English

(Confusingly, the article doesn’t elaborate on how a resistance against what’s effectively a physical attack can possibly work, but apparently it’s mainly a resistance against the many bioactive substances that ticks need to inject into the host in order to feed successfully, according to another paper from 2020.)

Once bitten, animals develop resistance that shrinks tick population

[Researchers] at Washington State University found that once host animals were exposed to ticks, they developed resistance to bites that dramatically shrank the tick population going forward.

2025-04-24 @ 18.59.02 ∈ In English

Study exposes magicians' misconceptions about why their tricks work

[For example, magicians] felt that active participation in a trick would increase participants' sense of wonder, [but] the participants themselves enjoyed the trick less and were actually more confused by what was happening.

2025-04-23 @ 11.34.11 ∈ In English

Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack

In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google’s systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent page that collected logins.

2025-04-21 @ 14.00.16 ∈ In English

More ticks carry Lyme disease bacteria in pheasant-release areas, research shows

Researchers studied ticks in 25 woodland areas in South West England where pheasants are released—and 25 nearby control sites where no pheasants are released. They found that Borrelia spp.—the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease—was almost 2.5 times more common in ticks in the pheasant-release areas.