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Researchers have identified an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill bacteria that are resistant to most current drugs.Zosurabalpin is highly effective against the bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (Crab), which is classified as a "priority 1" pathogen by the World Health Organization due to its growing presence in hospitals.Crab can kill up to 60% of people infected with it. It commonly causes infections of the urinary tract, respiratory tract and blood stream, potentially leading to…

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a global health concern in the coming decades. In the race to develop new weapons, scientists from Texas A&M have created a novel family of antibacterial polymers that can kill 'superbugs' in a way they can't evolve resistance to.The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Suddenly infections were far more survivable, with antibiotics opening up more surgical and medical treatments to more people. But the…

In "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin: Lost Years" miniseries (by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, SL Gallant, Luis Antonio Delgado, and Shawn Lee), the series shows the second iteration of the Turtles grown up. The new group is four distinct-looking Turtles named Moja, Odyn, Yi, and Uno (all different words representing one in particular) with no masks carrying the collective weapons of the team preceding them. In the comic, the group bands together under the training of Casey Jones Jr. to…

X (formerly Twitter) is going through a rough period. Earlier, the platform witnessed an exodus of advertisers after the owner Elon Musk was involved in an antisemitic controversy with another user. Later, at a conference, Musk said during an interview that advertisers leaving would result in the social media site shutting down and he even used abusive language. Now, a new issue suddenly appeared on the platform in the early hours of December 14. An X outage was spotted by many users who found that no outgoing links were…

Apple’s latest tvOS beta suggests the iTunes Movies and TV Shows apps on Apple TV are on their way out. 9to5Mac reports the set-top box’s former home of streaming purchases and rentals is no longer in the tvOS 17.2 release candidate (RC), now available to developers. (Unless Apple finds unexpected bugs, RC firmware usually ends up identical to the public version.) Apple’s folding of the iTunes apps into the TV app was first reported in October.9to5Mac says the home screen icons for iTunes Movies and iTunes TV Shows are…

With tvOS 17.2 RC, Apple is finally killing the iTunes Movies app. This change comes after the company started testing a revamped TV app early last month. When you open the iTunes Movies app, Apple TV users are greeted with a new screen that tells them, “iTunes Movies and Your Purchases Have Moved.” With that, users can go to the store or to their purchases by returning to the TV app.This movement was already expected. Previous to tvOS 17.2 beta 1, Bloomberg reported Apple was planning a major overhaul to its TV…

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from the company. Even at the time, this was a feature for the paranoid users. By turning on the feature, all emails sent from Facebook — mostly notifications of ‘likes’ and private messages — to the users who opted-in would be encrypted with the decades-old technology called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP. Eight years later,…

The Comixology app, the mobile incarnation of the digital comics platform owned by Amazon since 2014, has finally shuffled off this mortal coil. On Dec. 4, individual Comixology libraries and Comixology Unlimited subscriptions were swept into users’ corresponding Kindle libraries, where those comics can now be read using the Kindle app or the read.amazon.com browser experience (still in beta). It’s been a slow-moving and inevitable apocalypse for Comixology users. In 2018, Amazon shuttered Comixology Pull List, a…

An equipment failure killed 100,000 Atlantic salmon worth $5 million at the Sustainable Blue land-based salmon farm in Nova Scotia earlier this month, the company said Tuesday.A filter that removes carbon dioxide from holding tanks experienced a "structural collapse" on Nov. 4, the company told CBC News.The land-based salmon farm is the only one in North America with zero waste discharge thanks to its proprietary water filtration system which constantly recirculates water on-site.The fish kill has left the company unable…

November 28, 20233 min readAn estimated 460,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributable to coal-fired power plant pollution between 1999 and 2020, new research findsBy E&E News & Ariel WittenbergA coal-fired power plant in Michigan. CLIMATEWIRE | Particulate pollution from coal plants is likely far more deadly than EPA regulations recognize, according to a study published in Science over the Thanksgiving holiday.Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants has an associated risk of…