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A common constipation drug shows surprising power to protect kidneys

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of kidney failure. As the disease progresses, many patients eventually need dialysis to survive. While current treatments can help slow damage, there…

Apple Watch Compatibility Gives Vloggers Remote Control

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are several reasons that droves of creators have adopted the Blackmagic Camera app in place of the iPhone’s native camera. For one, it offers options demanded by pros like…

Sony’s PS5 sales plummet amid price rises and a memory crisis

Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5 consoles in its most recent fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 percent year over year. The slump in PS5 sales comes after Sony raised the price of its PS5 consoles twice over the past year,…

Why you can never get your doctor to call you back

A lot of the conversation around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics and drug discovery or on doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of the system affects whether patients actually get seen at all, and it has less to…

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States….

Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO

Medics escort a person with a suspected hantavirus infection to an ambulance after being flown to Amsterdam, the Netherlands Peter Dejong/Associated Press/Alamy The outbreak of hantavirus on board the cruise ship MV Hondius is unlikely to become an epidemic, the…

Glowing algae could power the lamps of the future

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bioluminescence is everywhere in nature, but it puts on its biggest light shows underwater. In the deepest regions of the oceans, as much as…

Scientists find natural compounds that hit COVID-19 from every angle

Researchers have identified a group of natural compounds from a Brazilian tree that show promising activity against the virus responsible for COVID-19. The compounds, known as galloylquinic acids, were extracted from the leaves of Copaifera lucens Dwyer, a species native…

Twitch Has New Penalties For Streamers Caught Viewbotting, CEO Says

Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update…

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group…