The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 appears to be fairly easily spread. But the good news is that it’s not among the most transmissible diseases out there. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-symptoms.html
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How does the new coronavirus spread?
The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 appears to be fairly easily spread. But the good news is that it’s not among the most transmissible diseases out there. Source: https://www.livescience.com/how-coronavirus-spreads.html
NASA Brings Voyager 2 Fully Back Online, 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth
Iwastheone quotes Inverse: In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth, is back online and resuming its mission to collect scientific data on the solar system and the interstellar space beyond. On Wednesday, February 5 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, NASA’s Voyager…
OpenBSD Mail Server Bug Allowed Remotely Executing Shell Commands As Root
This week a remotely-exploitable vulnerability (granting root privileges) was discovered in OpenSMTPD (OpenBSD’s implementation of server-side SMTP). ZDNet notes that the library’s “portable” version “has also been incorporated into other OSes, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and some Linux distros, such as Debian, Fedora, Alpine Linux, and more.”
To exploit this issue, an attacker must craft and send malformed SMTP messages to a…
How to locate planet Uranus
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon shines close to Uranus. Learn how to locate the planet, using tonight’s moon location and these links to charts and other info. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-uranus-in-front-of-pisces…
NASA’s SLS Heavy-Lift Moon Rocket Core Leaves For Testing
“The first core stage for the Space Launch System, intended to get us back to the moon by 2024, has left Boeing’s manufacturing center in New Orleans for launch readiness test,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Excelcia: This is very good news for the troubled project which has been plagued by delays and cost overruns. Back when it was thought the system…
Cancer Death Rate in US Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop
Breakthrough treatments for lung cancer and melanoma have driven down cancer mortality overall — and from 2016 to 2017 spurred the largest-ever decline. schwit1 shares a report: The cancer death rate in the United States fell 2.2 percent from 2016 to 2017 — the largest single-year decline in cancer mortality ever reported, the American Cancer Society reported on Wednesday. Since 1991…
Some surprisingly good news about anxiety
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of psychiatric illness, yet researchers know very little about factors associated with recovery. A new study investigated three levels of recovery in a large, representative sample of more than 2,000 Canadians with a history of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200107131832.htm
Quadrantid meteors on night of January 3-4
The expected peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower in 2020 comes late evening January 3 until dawn January 4, with the predawn hours on January 4 being your best bet. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/quadrantid-meteor-shower-before-dawn-in-early-january…
Two Top Scientists Warn That The Amazon, and Earth, Have Reached a Tipping Point
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: “The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we,” Thomas Lovejoy of George Mason University and Carlos Nobre of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, both of whom have studied the world’s largest rainforest for decades, wrote in an editorial in the journal Science Advances….