Technology

Information-Theoretic Security: Creating 21st Century Cryptography Standards

Most modern cryptographic schemes rely on complexity for security- they can be cracked, but that would take a prohibitively long time, even with enormous computational resources. Information-theoretic security, in which even an adversary with unbounded co ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2014 - 10:02am

Comics, Cosplay, Conventions, and Dr. Who Too

Source My colleague, Tony Troxell, has a blog called Geeking in Indiana with the tagline, “Movies, Tidbits, and General Geekery from Around Indiana.” Tony explains the purpose of his blog here. ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Nov 5 2014 - 10:53am

In Cybersecurity, The Weakest Link Is You

We should know by now- don't click that link. Bill Buchanan, Author provided By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and some ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 1 2014 - 10:51pm

Big Data, Mutant Models And Science 2.0

Modern biology has a problem- how to find meaning in the rising oceans of genomic data, such as the reams of cancer mutations that genome-wide studies are publishing every week. The challenge is finding efficient ways to parse the signals from the noise. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 10:01am

Turning Antibodies Into Nanobodies

Antibodies that recognize and home in on molecular targets are among the most useful tools in biology and medicine- now those kinds of techniques are getting smaller and easier to produce in the form of nanobodies.   ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 2 2014 - 5:41pm

Neutralize Bioterrorism With Tiny Motors

William Murphy /flickr  By: Alexander Hellemans, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- Researchers around the world are studying how to destroy chemical and biological warfare agents without anyone getting hurt. A research group at the University of Californi ...

Article - Inside Science - Nov 3 2014 - 10:00am

Google X Tackles Cancer And Heart Attacks

via: The Telegraph By Jane Palmer, Genetic Literacy Project Sometimes I think I’ve outsourced my consciousness to Google. Can’t remember something? Google it. Want to remember something? Google Doc it. Want to get noticed? Get on Google News. If Google ev ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Nov 4 2014 - 5:44pm

Aromapoetry And Electric Ink: The Physical Book Is Not Dead, It's About To Be Reborn

No need to say goodbye to the print book. Amy Johansson/Shutterstock By Andrew Prescott, King's College London “Analog” and “digital” are the two polar opposites of our modern world. The word “analog” has become our catch-all term for what we see as ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 11:04am

Cloying Or Clever? Coffee That Only Brews When The Energy Is Renewable

Like coffee but your liberal guilt won't let you enjoy it if the energy to heat the water might have come from natural gas or nuclear energy? There may be hope for the future. Researchers at Lancaster University have used a Raspberry Pi to determine t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 1:39am

Created: Brain To Brain Interface Between People

Words are so 20th century. The 21st century could belong to brains communicating directly with each other. Researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people. In the newly published paper, which involved si ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 8:00am