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The Japanese aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) has published a new portion of data obtained from the asteroid Rovers, MINERVA-II1, successfully carried out the landing on the asteroid Ryugu 21 September in the framework of the mission “Hayabusa-2”. On the published picture shows the surface of an asteroid, covered with rather large boulders. In addition, for…

Photo: Getty On Thursday, police in Vietnam reported that a court had jailed a 40-year-old man for two and a half years due to the comments included in his Facebook posts. This is the second Facebook-related imprisonment in the country in the past week. According to the country’s Ministry of Public Security, Manh Dong allegedly…

Photo: Getty WikiLeaks’ founder has been stuck in Ecuador’s London embassy for six years and cut off from accessing the internet for six months. Those circumstances have made it difficult for him to do the job of running WikiLeaks and the organization announced on Thursday that Assange will step aside as its editor-in-chief. WikiLeaks tweeted…

Photo: Getty The Port of San Diego is investigating a cyberattack involving ransomware that has impacting multiple services, limiting its ability to process parking permits and records requests and perform other business functions, authorities said. The port issued a statement on Wednesday blaming a cyberattack on a disruption of its IT systems and that law…

Photo: Kiichiro Sato (AP) The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a case against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. As first reported by Bloomberg, this case follows a series of scandals around the CEO’s online behavior, ranging from a defamation suit filed by a cave diver after Musk referred to him as a “pedo…

Screenshot: CSPAN Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, is currently blubbering before the Senate Judiciary Committee in an attempt to paint himself as a victim, a champion of women, and a family man. Naturally, some viewers noticed that, curiously, Kavanaugh’s left hand is absent of a wedding band. There’s a…

H1N1 virus particles under an electron microscope.Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (Flickr) This past winter’s flu season was quickly recognized as one of the worst to come along in a long time. But new data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention highlights just destructive it was…

A phase-contrast scan of the mummy’s hand. Nine individual scans were stitched together to create this composite image.Image: Radiological Society of North America A revved-up version of traditional CT scanning shows it’s possible to acquire microscopic-scale images of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing previously unseen features such as blood vessels and nerves. Non-destructive x-ray and CT…

Stem cells seen on a computer screen at the University of Connecticut`s Stem Cell InstituteImage: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Doctors selling dubious stem cell treatments isn’t just a problem in the U.S., suggests a new study published in Regenerative Medicine. Clinics in Canada are also marketing these treatments directly to consumers, the study found, and…