Signcryption technology tightens cyber security
Signcryption is a technology that protects confidentiality and authenticity, seamlessly and simultaneously.
Computer Sciences
Jan 9, 2012
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Persilastaffanes: silicon frameworks with delocalized sigma electrons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Persilastaffanes are an unusual new class of compounds that are introduced in the journal Angewandte Chemie by Japanese researchers led by Takeaki Iwamoto at Tohoku University. They are rod-shaped molecules ...
Materials Science
Jan 9, 2012
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Study: Terrorist organizations have shifted Internet activity to social networks
Hackers invading databases is just the tip of the iceberg in online terrorist activity: International terrorist organizations have shifted their Internet activity focus to social networks and today a number of Facebook groups ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2012
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Fit females make more daughters, mighty males get grandsons
Females influence the gender of their offspring so they inherit either their mother's or grandfather's qualities. 'High-quality' females – those which produce more offspring – are more likely to have daughters. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2012
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Mammalian fossil first-ever found in the Cenozoic deposits of the Lunpola Basin, Northern Tibet
Dr. DENG Tao, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, found a rhinocerotid fossil in the upper part of the Dingqing Formation at the Lunbori locality ...
Archaeology
Jan 9, 2012
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Microsoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The white spaces highlighted ...
Smart probe detects termites by 'hearing' them eat
Researchers at Edith Cowan University have come up with a sensitive acoustic device that can detect termite infestation by ‘hearing’ them chew through timber.
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2012
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Peering into the interfaces of nanoscale polymeric materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of polymer nanostructures and nanoscale devices for a wide variety of applications could emerge from new information about the interplay between nanoscale interfaces in polymeric materials, ...
Nanophysics
Jan 9, 2012
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Swiss chemists emulate cheese rind to create self-cleaning surface material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheese lovers know that the milky white outer coating of Camembert cheese not only serves to offer a tart offset to the pungent inner cheese, but also protects it until ready to be eaten, much like plastic ...
Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance
The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2012
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