Each year, astronomers discover nova explosions in the Milky Way that cause dim stars to flare up and emit far more light than the sun before they fade again. But our galaxy is so big and dusty that no one knows how many of these eruptions occur throughout its vast domain, where they fling newly minted chemical elements into space.

Now, by detecting the explosions’ infrared light, which penetrates dust better than visible light does, Caltech astronomer Kishalay De and his colleagues have estima

The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel by one of its maintainers after researchers from the school apparently knowingly submitted code with security flaws.

Earlier this year, two researchers from the university released a paper detailing how they had submitted known security vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel in order to show how potentially malicious code could get through the approval process. Now, after another student from the university submitt

A new day, a new data breach.

Facebook and LinkedIn (which says the latest incident was a “scrape,” not a “breach”) are just two of dozens of recent examples of our precious passwords falling into the wrong hands.

Whether it's an email service, an online store account or even a service designed to keep our passwords safe, no site or service is immune.
When it happens, our Spidey senses go off and we go into panic mode, imagining all the terrible things that might happen if a hacker gets

19,000 people have been evacuated as a wildfire rages on the Greek island of Rhodes

ATHENS, Greece — Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day on three fronts, Greek authorities said on Sunday.

The Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection said it was "the largest evacuation

Nearly half a million in US may have been affected by tick-bite meat allergy

CDC issues warning over alpha-gal syndrome, red-meat allergy primarily associated with lone-star tick saliva

Up to 450,000 Americans may have been affected by a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by ticks as many doctors remain unaware of what it is or how to treat it, according to the Cent