http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP)—The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a "Most Wanted" jihadi from America's South. The Alabama native wrote that "the war of narratives has become even more important than the war of navies, napalm and knives." http://phys.org/news284986690.html Technology Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:58:40 EST news284986690 The United Nations published Monday a report offering guidance and support to countries on tackling "terrorists" who use the Internet to plan attacks, recruit and disseminate propaganda. http://phys.org/news270119465.html Technology Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:30:01 EST news270119465 The Reuters news agency said Friday that one of its websites had been hacked and used to disseminate fake stories about Syria's rebel movement, the latest cyberattack to strike a media organization covering the country's civil war. http://phys.org/news263231238.html Technology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:47:32 EST news263231238 Iran has denied online reports surfacing Tuesday that it plans to cut access to the Internet in August and replace it with a national intranet, according to a statement by the ministry of communication and information technology. http://phys.org/news253252457.html Technology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:54:27 EST news253252457 Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed the rise of social networks and mobile technology that's put the Internet at an arm's reach, day and night - yet a new study has found that people are even more distrustful of the information they find online. http://phys.org/news243084625.html Technology Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:30:41 EST news243084625 South Korea has tightened monitoring of popular social networking sites to curb illicit content including an upsurge in North Korean propaganda, officials said Thursday. http://phys.org/news242575557.html Technology Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:20:01 EST news242575557 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just don’t know whether to laugh, cry or be alarmed when hearing about what the boys in secretive back rooms are doing in the name of antiterrorism, or homeland security, or whatever else they wish to call it. This time it seems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the semi-secret agency charged with coming up with new and cool ways to protect the citizens of the United States from foreign bad guys, wants to hire someone to figure out how vulnerable some people are to “narratives” (oral stories, speeches, propaganda, books, etc. that cause people to think) and then, supplant such messages with “better” messages to head off the path that for such people might lead them to becoming a terrorist. http://phys.org/news238319237.html Technology Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:47:35 EST news238319237 Research by an historian at the University of Southampton has revealed how modern scholars have been led astray by a 350-year-old propaganda campaign. http://phys.org/news223115474.html Other Sciences Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:31:39 EST news223115474 Less than half of Britons believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to a poll carried out for The Times newspaper and published on Saturday. http://phys.org/news177493814.html Space & Earth Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:10:01 EST news177493814 Decades spent studying mass media messages of fear led noted Arizona State University scholar David Altheide to examine how the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, were originally portrayed in the media and how those messages changed after 9/11 and leading up to the war in Iraq. http://phys.org/news159190428.html Other Sciences Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:34:27 EST news159190428