And in July, Kaspersky Lab discovered the first malicious app in Apple's app store.
Security firm Kaspersky Lab discovered new malware like that used in the attack on Sony Pictures being deployed in further attacks against other companies.
In May, researchers at Kaspersky Lab discovered Flame, a complex piece of malware that had been stealing data from computers for an estimated five years.
At the same time, the Spelke lab discovered, young children are quite bad at using landmarks or décor to find their way.
Over the summer, the Russian lab discovered seven positive samples from the world track and field championships in Moscow, and all seven athletes immediately accepted penalties or temporary bans.
Last year, Kaspersky Lab discovered several state-sponsored computer viruses including Flame, a sophisticated computer virus that spied on computers in Iran, and Gauss, a separate virus that targeted Lebanese banks.
Lonnie D. Franklin Jr., 57, was charged Thursday with 10 counts of murder and one of attempted murder after the state DNA lab discovered a DNA link between evidence from the old crime scenes and that of Mr. Franklin's son, Christopher, who was recently convicted of a felony weapons charge.
During the course of the work, which took six years, Maggen, the head of the museum's paper-conservation lab, discovered something of major significance: Until then, the story that had been officially told was that the missing pages were destroyed in the blaze at the Aleppo synagogue, a theory supported by the purple signs of charring that existed on the edges of the rescued pages.
The MIT lab discovered that by sandwiching layers of plastic and glass, they could create a hybrid mirror with the properties of both dielectric and regular mirrors.
One lipid in particular, the lab discovered, bonded with the trunk, creating a fatty sheath protectively sealing the scales in place.
