Technology

Google Play's Security Flaw: Thousands Of Secret Keys Are Hidden In Android Apps

A paper presented at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference today revealed a crucial security problem in Google Play, the official Android app store where millions of users of Android, the most popular mobile platform, get their apps.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 8:00pm

Do Your Children Look More Like You Than Your Spouse? Now A Computer Can Tell

It's puzzling how some people can look at a baby and say 'she looks like her dad'- computers have historically been even more limited. While a four-year-old can look at a cartoon of a chicken and say "That's a chicken", that ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 1:01pm

Is There An The Arrow Of Time? If So, Can We See It?

Einstein's theory of relativity conceptualizes time as we would a spatial dimension, like height, width, and depth. But unlike dimensions, time seems to permit motion in only one direction: forward.  This directional asymmetry — the "arrow of ti ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 5:01pm

New Invisibility Cloak Even Hides Objects From The Sense Of Touch

In the past years, invisibility cloaks using metamaterials have developed for various senses. At certain wavelengths, objects can be hidden from light, for example, and even heat or sound. But touch? That defies our The Invisible Man science-fiction sensi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2014 - 4:29pm

Vegetarian Water- For The Truly Ethical

Did you know that when you drink water, you are not really being vegetarian? I didn't either. It turns out that when you drink water, it could have microbes and other small stuff- well, I knew that part. What I did not know is that viruses and bacteri ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:13pm

Will A 'News Inspector' That Lets Readers See Hidden Edits Of Articles Restore Confidence In Journalism?

News delivery and consumption has rapidly changed in the digital era.  Sites like Science 2.0 were once dismissed by corporate-controlled media, but now the BBC, The New Yorker and Forbes use blog format online news delivery. But they do things a little d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2014 - 1:44pm

Mustaches, Home Oxygen And Cigarettes Do Not Mix

You probably knew this but a new report in Mayo Clinic Proceedings confirms that facial hair, sparks and home oxygen therapy can be dangerous. Researchers reviewed home oxygen therapy-related burn cases and experimented with a mustachioed mannequin, a fac ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2014 - 3:57pm

Computer Analysis Of Photographs Could Help Diagnose Rare Genetic Disorders

A computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, using a computer program that recognizes facial features in photographs, looks for similarities with facial structures for various con ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 2:54pm

Facelock: A Better Way To Pick A Password?

It was once the case that computer security for users was a non-issue. Most break-ins of networks involved someone local, not a brute force password discovery. Now, remote hackers in China are constantly hammering US sites using automated tools. Password ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 9:17am

Finally, A Goose Bump Sensor

Can emotional states be measured quantitatively? A team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20mm x 20mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence of  piloerection- commonly known as g ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 12:30pm