Passwords, gestures and fingerprint scans are all helpful ways to keep a thief from unlocking and using a cell phone or tablet. Cybersecurity researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have gone a step further. ...
Security
Apr 7, 2014
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Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to just-published research by scientists with the U.S. Geological ...
Ecology
Apr 7, 2014
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The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, tracing ...
Astronomy
Apr 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has discovered a previously unknown navigational aid used by a species of blind fish. In their paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the ...
During spawning season, a largemouth bass male attentively guards its nest. Recent research at the University of Illinois found that catch-and-release angling could give bass predators the perfect opportunity to consume the ...
Ecology
Apr 7, 2014
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A 6-month-old female giraffe at Oklahoma City Zoo is scheduled to have surgery to correct a terminal birth defect that affects her ability to eat.
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2014
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When the Xbox One was unveiled last year, Microsoft boasted the Xbox 360 successor would feature an updated—and mandatory—version of its camera-based Kinect sensor with more accurate movement tracking and voice detecting. ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 7, 2014
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The twenty-third tropical cyclone of the Southern Pacific tropical cyclone season has developed near the Solomon Islands and strengthened into Tropical Storm Ita on April 5. NASA satellite imagery showed the center of circulation ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 7, 2014
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The Supreme Court has declined an early look at a constitutional challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records.
Security
Apr 7, 2014
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The recent slowdown in the warming rate of the Northern Hemisphere may be a result of internal variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation—a natural phenomenon related to sea surface temperatures, according to ...
Earth Sciences
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