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Assistant Director-General of the WHO presented lecture on…

Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization and Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance in the Office of the WHO Director-General have presented an inaugural Distinguished Lecture entitled "Antimicrobial Resistance: Global Challenges and Ways Forward" at…

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Hack-proof RFID chips

New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.​ [caption id="attachment_7559" align="alignnone" width="639"] Researchers have designed an RFID chip that prevents so-called side-channel attacks, which analyze patterns of memory access…

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18th Mirror

[caption id="attachment_7555" align="alignnone" width="700"] Source: NASA/C. Gunn[/caption] Inside a massive clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic am to install the last…

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Do venture capitalists matter?

Yes, finds a study — especially when direct flights help them visit their investments more often.  [caption id="attachment_7550" align="alignnone" width="616"] “Suppose you want to promote entrepreneurship in a given area,” MIT’s Xavier Giroud says. “One…