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Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with 'chemical precision'

An international team of researchers, headed by Leiden theoretical chemist Geert-Jan Kroes, published on this subject this week in the journal Science. Hydrogen on copper…

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New System Ensures Privacy in Internet Searches

Just imagine someone from Company X who uses the Google search engine to obtain information about a certain technology. If Company Y, a competitor of X, should…

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NIST Test Proves ‘The Eyes Have It’ for ID Verification

A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain…

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Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools for Global Development

Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into…

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New Japanese Supercomputer RICC Breaks PC Cluster Performance Record

Named RICC (RIKEN Integrated Cluster of Clusters), the supercomputer is made up of four distinct computer clusters connected through InfiniBand…

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Smartphones Enhance Health for Elderly Diabetics in China

Cellular phones – once a luxury used strictly for talking – have taken on many new roles in recent years. Now researchers at Saint Louis University and Old…

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New Celestial Map Enhances GPS Accuracy and Reliability

The system works well, and millions rely on it every day, but what tells the GPS satellites where they are in the first place? “For GPS to work, the orbital…

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Homeland Security Listening to Boats in Hudson River

Alexander Sutin and a team of acoustics experts at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey are developing a system that tracks the traffic by listening…

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Bogus E-mails from FDIC Link Computer Users To Viruses

Warner says the spam is being delivered with one of two subject lines: • FDIC has officially named your bank a failed bank • You need to check your Bank…

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Research Continues on Secure, Mobile, Quantum Communications

Hughes and his Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded team have conducted high data-rate experiments using an optical laser link, a tool which exploits…

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Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest HIV evolutionary tree

Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, researchers are using the…

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FDIC Spam Emails: UAB Expert Warns of Viruses and Risks

Warner says the spam is being delivered with one of two subject lines: FDIC has officially named your bank a failed bank You need to check your Bank Deposit…

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PolyU engineering researchers put fibre optics to good use

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Faculty of Engineering (FENG) has recently set up a Specialty Optical Fibre Fabrication Laboratory in its…

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Exploring a Hierarchical Quantum Cryptography Network

Because of its scientific significance and social impact, the project is reported in Volume 54, Issue 17 (September, 2009) of the Chinese Science Bulletin…

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New Strategies to Enhance Critical Infrastructure Resilience

After finishing the IRRIIS research project, the Fraunhofer IAIS can present new results to reduce the susceptance to failure of critical infrastructures…

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Understanding Earthquake Ruptures Through Satellite Data

“One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to…

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