Hard times ahead for hackers -- ScienceDaily

Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key to work, it must consist of numbers chosen at random without any structure — just the opposite of using the birthdate of our favourite pet. But, for a human, it is extremely difficult to choose...

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Methylene blue improved physical, biochemical and genetic aging markers in experiments with human skin cells and simulated skin tissues -- ScienceDaily

New work from the University of Maryland suggests that a common, inexpensive and safe chemical could slow the aging of human skin. The researchers found evidence that the chemical — an antioxidant called methylene blue — could slow or reverse several well-known signs of aging when...

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Chemical coatings boss around bacteria, in the bugs' own language -- ScienceDaily

Princeton researchers have developed a way to place onto surfaces special coatings that chemically “communicate” with bacteria, telling them what to do. The coatings, which could be useful in inhibiting or promoting bacterial growth as needed, possess this controlling power over...

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Feather-light metal cathodes for stable lithium-oxygen batteries -- ScienceDaily

Nanoporous nickel cathodes for lithium oxygen batteries are ultralight, shown here balanced on flower stamens.
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Graphene and quantum dots put in motion a CMOS-integrated camera that can see the invisible -- ScienceDaily

Over the past 40 years, microelectronics have advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to silicon and CMOS (Complementary metal-oxide semiconductors) technology, making possible computing, smartphones, compact and low-cost digital cameras, as well as most of the electronic gadgets we rely on...

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International team of researchers uncovered the system inside cars' onboard computers -- ScienceDaily

An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection Agency put the company on notice in 2015 for violating the Clean Air Act. During a year-long...

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Harnessing energy from glass walls -- ScienceDaily

A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows.

Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing...

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New study reveals the importance of African groundwater in kick-starting the evolutionary history of humans -- ScienceDaily

An international team led by a researcher at Cardiff University believe that the movement of our ancestors across East Africa was shaped by the locations of groundwater springs.

In a new study, the team argue that the springs acted as pit stops to allow early humans to survive as they moved...

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Improving wheat yields by increasing grain size, weight -- ScienceDaily

Larger, heavier wheat kernels — that’s how associate professor Wanlong Li of the SDSU Department of Biology and Microbiology seeks to increase wheat production. Through a three-year, $930,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, Li is collaborating with Bing Yang, an associate...

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Stable engineered bacteria that retain long-term memory of gut inflammation could be used as living diagnostics for chronic intestinal diseases and other conditions -- ScienceDaily

The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body, is known to affect human health and disease and researchers are thinking about new ways to use them as next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics. Today bacteria from the normal microbiome are already being used in...

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Study discovers a 'miracle material' for field of spintronics -- ScienceDaily

A University of Utah-led team has discovered that a class of “miracle materials” called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites could be a game changer for future spintronic devices.

Spintronics uses the direction of the electron spin — either up or down — to carry...

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Finding new therapies by combining drugs -- ScienceDaily

Two drugs taken together can sometimes lead to outcomes that largely deviate from the effect of the separated compounds — a fact well known from warnings on patient information leaflets. However, while doctors strongly advice against unsupervised mixing of drugs, the synergy of two...

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Printed, flexible and rechargeable battery can power wearable sensors -- ScienceDaily

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first printed battery that is flexible, stretchable and rechargeable. The zinc batteries could be used to power everything from wearable sensors to solar cells and other kinds of electronics.

The work appears in the...

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Harnessing energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater -- ScienceDaily

Penn State researchers have created a new hybrid technology that produces unprecedented amounts of electrical power where seawater and freshwater combine at the coast.

“The goal of this technology is to generate electricity from where the rivers meet the ocean,” said Christopher...

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Switching to off-peak delivery times reduced city congestion -- ScienceDaily

In some businesses — like supermarkets and restaurants — local restrictions on nighttime deliveries leave distributors no choice but to dispatch trucks during morning rush hours. But lifting these rules could reduce peak traffic volumes and increase transport efficiency, according...

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Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide -- ScienceDaily

That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the Rockies to just south of the Great Lakes, then around Arkansas and down to south Texas. It shows where there’s potential capacity for wind turbines 80 meters (about 262 feet) above the ground. That height is the current...

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May help cotton farmers battle blight -- ScienceDaily

Researchers have figured out how a once-defeated bacterium has re-emerged to infect cotton in a battle that could sour much of the Texas and U.S. crop.

And it boils down to this: A smart bacteria with a sweet tooth.
“It’s a food fight between the bacterium and the cotton...

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5 Best Online Businesses to Start This Year (Infographic)

There’s no better time to start an online business. Today, most retailers are finding that a good deal of their sales come from online shoppers. However, it doesn’t stop there — nearly every industry is moving online. So if you’re thinking about starting a new business venture, you...

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Scientists study neutralizer-free plasma propulsion for spacecraft -- ScienceDaily

Plasma propulsion is an important and efficient technology used to control spacecraft for Earth observation, communications and fundamental exploration of outer space.

Plasma propulsion systems use electric power to ionize propellant gas and transform it into the fourth state of matter,...

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Magnetic switch turns strange quantum property on and off -- ScienceDaily

When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic particles, which follow the rules of quantum theory, that’s not necessarily so. When an electron moves around a closed path, ending up where it...

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South Sudan wildlife surviving civil war, but poaching and trafficking threats increase -- ScienceDaily

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan’s current civil war on the country’s wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal...

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New strategy reported to combat influenza and speed recovery -- ScienceDaily

The influenza virus turns infected lung cells into factories that churn out thousands of copies of the virus to spread the infection. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have reported a promising new approach that uses an investigational cancer drug to dial down viral...

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Simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning -- ScienceDaily

Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans as BOTOX, a cosmetic medicine, rather than as a cause of potentially dangerous foodborne illnesses. Lesser known is that Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes the neurointoxication, produces one of the most potent toxins on...

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World's first demonstration of multicolor 3-D in vivo imaging using ultra-compact Compton camera with dramatically reduced measurement time -- ScienceDaily

As represented by conventional radiograph, radiological images provide only black and white figures in 2D space. The situation is basically the same for Single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET), which are the two most common molecular imaging techniques...

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Scientists introduce coating that turns fabrics into circuits -- ScienceDaily

A lightweight, comfortable jacket that can generate the power to light up a jogger at night may sound futuristic, but materials scientist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could make one today. In a new paper this month, she and colleagues outline how they have invented...

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Three-tiered structure of these impact-resistant shells could inspire better helmets, body armor -- ScienceDaily

The shells of marine organisms take a beating from impacts due to storms and tides, rocky shores, and sharp-toothed predators. But as recent research has demonstrated, one type of shell stands out above all the others in its toughness: the conch.

Now, researchers at MIT have explored the...

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Natural gas facilities with no carbon dioxide emissions -- ScienceDaily

How can we burn natural gas without releasing CO2 into the air? This feat is achieved using a special combustion method that TU Wien has been researching for years: chemical looping combustion (CLC). In this process, CO2 can be isolated during combustion without having to use any additional...

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New modified toy car designs offer children with disabilities more options -- ScienceDaily

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed two new modified toy car designs for children with disabilities in an effort to encourage them to further explore, play, and engage in physical and social activities.

The new cars were developed under the umbrella of the “Go Baby...

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Nanoalloys ten times as effective as pure platinum in fuel cells -- ScienceDaily

A new type of nanocatalyst can result in the long-awaited commercial breakthrough for fuel cell cars. Research results from Chalmers University of Technology and Technical University of Denmark show that it is possible to significantly reduce the need for platinum, a precious and rare metal,...

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Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate -- ScienceDaily

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans from the occurrence of a catastrophic nuclear-waste fire at any one of dozens of reactor sites around the country, according to an article in the...

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Metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk, study suggests -- ScienceDaily

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the...

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Health food sweetener and now, clothing dye -- ScienceDaily

Sorghum has long been a staple food in many parts of the world, but in the U.S., it’s best known as a sweetener and livestock feed. As demand for the grain soars, so does the amount of waste husks. To reduce this waste, scientists report in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry &...

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Scientists borrow from electronics to build circuits in living cells -- ScienceDaily

Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an appropriate response.

Through billions of years of trial and error, evolution has arrived at a mode of information processing at the cellular level. In the microchips that run...

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3 Beliefs of Successful Internet Entrepreneurs

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Are you one of the millions of people who, at one point in your life, googled “how to make money online?” Seven years ago, I joined that club.
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New way to control light with electric fields -- ScienceDaily

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling light with electric fields.

“Our method is similar to the technique used to provide the computing capabilities of computers,” says Linyou Cao, an assistant professor of materials science...

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Researchers simulate quantum necklace-like structures in superfluids -- ScienceDaily

The quantum world is both elegant and mysterious. It is a sphere of existence where the laws of physics experienced in everyday life are broken — particles can exist in two places at once, they can react to each other over vast distances, and they themselves seem confused over whether...

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5 Tips for Starting Your Own Online Publishing Company

With audiences rapidly moving online for their content, using mobile devices, ereaders and tablets for books and other types of content, the world of online publishing has grown in response to provide more content and offer new opportunities for writers to get in front of a larger audience....

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3 Solutions for Ecommerce Merchants Fighting Fraud

One of the lesser known challenges of running an ecommerce store is preventing fraud chargebacks. When a consumer doesn’t recognize a charge on their credit card statement they will dispute the charge with their credit card company, which will result in a fraud chargeback to the...

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300 Franchises You Can Start With Nearly Any Budget

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Interested in owning a business? 
You might be surprised by how relatively affordable that can be in the franchise world, home to a myriad of...

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Apple offers first peek at plans to convert D.C.’s Carnegie Library into new store

A rendering of Apple’s vision for a restored Carnegie Library in Mount Vernon Square. Under Apple’s plan, the 114-year-old building would host concerts, performances and education open to the public. (Apple)
Steve Jobs minted Apple as a top American retailer by designing crisp, modern...

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The Shocking Reality of Scaling an Online Business

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5 House Cleaning Franchises You Can Buy Now to Turn a Tidy Profit

As an entrepreneur, you know you are done working for other people, but you might not know what comes next. How do you create a sustainable business? What if you’re struggling to create a business idea? 
Investing in a franchise tends to be safer than creating a new business from...

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Federal agency rules Trump’s D.C. hotel lease is in ‘full compliance’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, and his family cut a ribbon during the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in D.C. on Oct. 26. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Government officials overseeing the Trump International Hotel’s lease with the federal...

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D.C. mayor to Trump: Give us control of our parkland, including RFK

In mid-March President Trump met with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in the Oval Office, along with Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld. Now she is asking for wide authority to make changes to federally owned real estate. (Courtesy @realDonaldTrump Twitter)
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking...

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Southwest flights delayed by online booking glitch

Frustrated Southwest Airlines customers have been forced to wait in long lines for a second day as the airline tries to solve a technical problem with its electronic booking system. In the meantime, passengers are being told to prepare for delays. Katharine Jackson reports.





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Congress leaves FBI headquarters underfunded

The aging J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters for the FBI, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
The FBI would remain more than a half a billion dollars short of what it needs to build a new headquarters under the budget agreement Congress is set to consider this week,...

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