Study reveals how much people understand Internet
The Internet generation doesn't actually know much about how it works.
Internet
Nov 25, 2014
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US probes alleged India hacking of commission
US authorities have been asked to investigate allegations that hackers India used back-door codes provided by companies to spy on private exchanges by a US commission on China, an official said Tuesday.
Business
Jan 10, 2012
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Online trolling used to be funny, but now the term refers to something far more sinister
It seems like internet trolling happens everywhere online these days – and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
Other
Feb 4, 2019
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Solving Everest's wildlife mysteries with eDNA
A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Appalachian State University used environmental DNA (eDNA) to document the breadth of high-alpine biodiversity present on Earth's highest mountain, 29,032-foot ...
Ecology
Aug 15, 2022
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The catch-22s of reservoir computing: Researchers find overlooked weakness in powerful machine learning tool
In nonlinear dynamic systems, a change in one place can trigger an outsized change elsewhere. The climate, the workings of the human brain, and the behavior of the electric grid are all examples—and all change dramatically ...
General Physics
Sep 28, 2023
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Chameleon: Cloud computing for computer science
Cloud computing has changed the way we work, the way we communicate online, even the way we relax at night with a movie. But even as "the cloud" starts to cross over into popular parlance, the full potential of the technology ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 26, 2014
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The electric atmosphere: Plasma is next NASA science target
Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2012
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New method enables effective free-space optical communication regardless of weather
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Moussa N'Gom, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has devised a method to make communications between satellites and the ground more effective no matter the weather. ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 1, 2023
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Artificial gut aims to expose the elusive microbiome
The microbiome is a collection of trillions of bacteria that reside in and on our bodies. Each person's microbiome is unique—just like a fingerprint—and researchers are finding more and more ways in which it impacts our ...
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2019
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Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones?
Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class of catalysts with a wide range of applications, according ...
Materials Science
Nov 19, 2021
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