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33 researchers get €10m for projects addressing future health challenges
Ireland’s state-owned healthcare research board will fund projects for a maximum of four years. They will tackle issues from cancer to TB.
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53 early-career researchers across Ireland get €28.5m funding boost
Of the 36 STEM-related projects funded by the SFI-IRC Pathway programme, 21 are led by women researchers.
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National Aviary Researchers Submit Drone Footage to Make Case For Ivory-Billed Woodpecker’s Existence – The Trib
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Irish researchers develop new model to help treat heart failure
Developed at RCSI, the new ‘mock circulatory loop’ model can mimic both a healthy heart and a heart in failure to help device testing.
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Researchers find first-of-its-kind armored dinosaur remains in Argentina
![3D computer rendering of Jakapil kaniukura](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/04GTbSJvqjrMTfVZiTO8e8i/hero-image.jpg)
Researchers have found the remains of a previously unknown species of armored dinosaur in Argentina — the first of its kind to be discovered in South America, according to Science Alert.
The dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, is said to have been bipedal with a short beak and rows of bony disk-shaped armor along its neck, back, and down to its tail. A well-protected species, Jakapil is a part of the thyreophoran species alongside other armored dinos like the stegosaurus and the ankylosaurus.
The discovery was made by paleontologists at the Félix de Azara Natural History Foundation in Argentina. The team uncovered the partial remains of Jakapil in the Río Negro province in northern Patagonia, Science Alert reports. Lead paleontologist Sebastián Apesteguía wrote that Jakapil represents the “first definitive thyreophoran species from the Argentinian Patagonia.”
![A holotype of Jakapil kaniukura](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/04GTbSJvqjrMTfVZiTO8e8i/images-1.fill.size_2000x1125.v1660501609.jpg)
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Researchers wrote in the journal Scientific Reports that Jakapil was an ancient species of thyreophoran, however, the remains found date back between 97 million and 94 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. The Cretaceous period is also known as the last era of the dinosaurs.
This is a surprising outcome as Apesteguía and his team note in their paper that “these older types of thyreophorans seem to have gone extinct by the Middle Jurassic.” They also added that they were surprised an ancient lineage of thyreophorans survived all the way into the Late Cretaceous in South America.
Thanks to this computer reconstruction above from Gabriel Díaz Yantén, a Chilean paleoartist and paleontology student at Río Negro National University, you can see what this ancient species may have looked like when it was alive.
Apesteguía and his team measured Jakapil out to be 5 feet long with a weight between 9 and 15 pounds — the size of an average house cat. With teeth similar to the stegosaurus, researchers also believe Jakapil to also have been a plant-eating species.
Researchers Find Vulnerability In Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps
Aaditya Purani, one of the researchers who found these vulnerabilities, said that “regular users should know that the Electron apps are not the same as their day-to-day browsers,” meaning they are potentially more vulnerable. In the case of Discord, the bug Purani and his colleagues found only required them to send a malicious link to a video. With Microsoft Teams, the bug they found could be exploited by inviting a victim to a meeting. In both cases, if the targets clicked on these links, hackers would have been able to take control of their computers, Purani explained in the talk. For him, one of the main takeaways of their research is that Electron is risky precisely because users are very likely to click on links shared in Discord or Microsoft Teams.
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