Public Release: 19-Nov-2018 Michigan State University Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits. New… Read More ›

Public Release: 23-Oct-2018 Technique from MIT could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring.Technique from MIT could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Tiny… Read More ›

Public Release: 10-Oct-2018   Boston Children’s Hospital Scientists studying how genetics impact brain disease have long sought a better experimental model. Cultures of genetically-modified cell lines can reveal some clues to how certain genes influence the development of psychiatric disorders… Read More ›

Public Release: 2-Oct-2018   The newly found object was announced by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center on October 1 University of Hawaii at Manoa Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The… Read More ›

Public Release: 27-Sep-2018   University of Luxembourg Caption Density plot of the power output of an energy-converting network that consists of interacting nano-machines illustrated by the spheres. The power increases from red to blue color, thus in the synchronization phase… Read More ›

Public Release: 25-Sep-2018   How is it possible that so many different and highly specific neurons arise in the brain? A mathematic model developed by researchers from the University of Basel’s Biozentrum demonstrates that different variants of genes enable such… Read More ›

Public Release: 6-Sep-2018 Computer science and psychology experts suggest discrimination is also a non-human phenomenon that could make autonomous machines susceptible Cardiff University Showing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be… Read More ›

Public Release: 30-Aug-2018   National Research University Higher School of Economics Researchers from the Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg State University, and the University of Potsdam have created the first ever database comprised of eye-tracking data collected during reading… Read More ›

Public Release: 23-Aug-2018 The discovery could make production of some electronic components cheaper, easier, and faster University of California – Riverside IMAGE: Electron microscope image of M13 spheroid-templated spiky gold nanobead with corresponding graphical illustration. Credit: Haberer Lab, UC Riverside… Read More ›

Public Release: 10-Aug-2018 Australian National University IMAGE: This is Dr. Seri Shipton in the Arabian Peninsula. Image: ANU. Credit: ANU New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans,… Read More ›

Public Release: 2-Aug-2018 A material already known for its unique behavior is found to carry current in a way never before observed Florida State University TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have… Read More ›

Public Release: 31-Jul-2018   New study assesses tax and regulatory options to incentivize the development of ‘green’ blockchain technologies and discourages use of polluting applications Elsevier   Caption Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer transaction verification is a polluting process, requiring machine hardware around… Read More ›

Public Release: 25-Jul-2018   A paper by Sergey Odintsov and Vasilis Oikonomou appeared in Physical Review D Kazan Federal University Caption These are the trajectories in the x1-x2 plane for x3=2, for various initial conditions near (x1,x2)=(?1,0) (upper right). The… Read More ›

Public Release: 18-Jul-2018 Folding polyhedron sampler enables easy capture and release of delicate marine organisms Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard The open ocean is the largest and least explored environment on Earth, estimated to hold up to… Read More ›

Public Release: 17-Jul-2018 This brings Jupiter’s total number of known moons to a whopping 79 — the most of any planet in our solar system Washington, DC–Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found–11 “normal” outer moons, and one that… Read More ›

Public Release: 16-Jul-2018 Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers have developed a prototype of a robot that can express “emotions” through changes in its outer surface. The robot’s skin covers a grid of texture units whose shapes change… Read More ›

Public Release: 28-Jun-2018   Research into spin dynamics suggests they have regular seasons and stable climates Georgia Institute of Technology IMAGE: The artist’s depiction of Kepler-186f. Credit: Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A new study from the Georgia Institute of… Read More ›

Public Release: 14-Jun-2018 Los Alamos National Laboratory and the US Army working on a replacement for toxic TNT DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory IMAGE: Oxadiazole has a calculated detonation pressure 50 percent higher than that of TNT. Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS,… Read More ›

Public Release: 31-May-2018 Stanford University Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify letters in the Braille alphabet. The work, reported May 31 in… Read More ›

Public Release: 13-May-2018 Durham University A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research. Questions about whether other universes might exist as part… Read More ›

Public Release: 24-Apr-2018   RAND Corporation A new RAND Corporation paper finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to upend the foundations of nuclear deterrence by the year 2040. While AI-controlled doomsday machines are considered unlikely, the hazards of artificial… Read More ›

Public Release: 6-Mar-2018   The emergence of inexpensive small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs) that operate without a human pilot, commonly known as drones, has led to adversarial groups threatening deployed U.S. forces, especially infantry units. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,… Read More ›