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Lightweight True Random Number Generators Reach New Milestone

Members of the Institute's cryptography research team have produced a series of circuits that are up to 50 per cent smaller than anything else currently…

Health & Medicine

K-State Veterinarian Says Natural Foods Not Always Best for Pets

All too often pet owners assume that because certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are healthy for them, they are also healthy for their pets, said…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Find Ancient Roots for SIV

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is the ancestor to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is between 32,000 and 75,000 years old and may even be…

Physics & Astronomy

New Types Of Rock Found On Moon By Researchers At Stony Brook University And NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

“In layman’s terms, we have discovered a new and fundamentally different type of rock on the Moon,” declares Dr. Timothy Glotch, assistant professor in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Finding hope in a meltdown

Symmetry is a fundamental concept in physics. Our ‘standard model’ of particle physics, for example, predicts that matter and anti-matter should have been…

Materials Sciences

Entangled frameworks limber up

The quest to tune the three-dimensional (3D) molecular frameworks of materials called porous coordination polymers (PCPs) has taken a step forward thanks to a…

Technology Offerings

High Solubility Lipophilic Metal Salts in Non-Polar Solvents

Our unrivalled lipophilic metal salts are outstanding due to their high solubility in non-polar liquids. This offers a variety of totally new applications in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Chocolate’s Potential: Genome Insights for Better Crops

“The large amount of information generated by this project dramatically changes the status of this tropical plant and its potential interest for the scientific…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Natural Foods for Pets: What Vets Want You to Know

All too often pet owners assume that because certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are healthy for them, they are also healthy for their pets, said…

Physics & Astronomy

Nano-sized BEANs: Unlocking New Data Storage Potential

Now an entire new class of phase-change materials has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the…

Physics & Astronomy

UCLA Physicists Mechanically Control Chemical Reactions

Chemical reactions in the cell are catalyzed by enzymes, which are protein molecules that speed up reactions. Each protein catalyzes a specific reaction. In a…

Environmental Conservation

Asian 'unicorn' photographed for first time in over 10 years

The Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (also known as Laos) announced on September15 that in late August villagers in the central province of…

Studies and Analyses

Father Absence Linked to Earlier Puberty in Girls

The findings, to be published Sept. 17 in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that the absence of a biologically related father in the home predicted…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Find Gene Responsible for High-Cholesterol Levels in Blood

Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) have found a gene that causes high levels of bad cholesterol to accumulate in the blood…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Home’s Electrical Wiring Acts as Antenna to Receive Low-Power Sensor Data

The walls do have ears, thanks to a device that uses a home’s electrical wiring as a giant antenna. Sensors developed by researchers at the University of…

Life & Chemistry

Combating Drug-Resistant HIV with New Protease Inhibitors

HIV-1 protease inhibitors were added as a component of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the mid-1990s, and have played a key role in that…

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