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Study Highlights Serious Security Threat to Many Internet sers
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in the Transmission Control Protocol of all Linux operating systems that enables attackers to hijack Internet communications...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed tiny wireless implants that one day could control prosthetics and treat physical disorders....
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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.
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Spinning Electrons Could Lead to New Electronics
Graphene and its unique characteristics could transform electronics and expand physicists' understanding of quantum phenomena.
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Scientists Are sing Sound to Track Nighttime Bird Migration
Researchers are helping to track the nighttime migratory patterns of birds by teaching a computer to recognize their flight calls.
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Nc State to Form Nsf-Funded Center For Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With iuc and Georgia Tech
Three universities are forming the Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning to accelerate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and...
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...
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How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly...
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When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's
Experiments are exploring a new class of semiconductor materials that could form the basis of phase-change memory capable of faster and permanent data storage.
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Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes
A five-year, $1.5-million award will enable Duke University professor Ingrid Daubechies to expand her collaborative research involving mathematics and electrical...
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Cyber Protections Contemplated For U.s. Election Systems
The Obama administration is considering boosting cyber protections for U.S. election systems by classifying them as critical infrastructure.
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Troll Hunters: The Twitterbots That Fight Against Online Abuse
Researchers are working to automate the detection of harassment, but one says humans do not agree on what constitutes harassment.
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Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can accurately monitor alcohol level within 15 minutes.
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Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage For General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Researchers have introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module.
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