A localized dust storm on Mars may have played a key role in driving water into the planet’s upper atmosphere, offering fresh clues to how the Red Planet lost much of its water over billions…
Graphene on toast, anyone?
Rice University scientists create patterned graphene onto food, paper, cloth, cardboard [caption id="attachment_14408" align="alignnone" width="655"] Rice University graduate student Yieu Chyan, left, and Professor James Tour. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)[/caption] HOUSTON – Rice University scientists…
Survival flair
[caption id="attachment_14405" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: GCTC[/caption] ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is gearing up for his second mission to the International Space Station in 2019 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. All astronauts who fly on Soyuz do a winter…
Chat tool simplifies tricky online privacy policies
[caption id="attachment_14402" align="alignright" width="367"] Kassem Fawaz UW-MADISON[/caption] Register for an account on just about any website or download an app to your smartphone and you likely will encounter that pesky, “I certify that I’ve read…
Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold. [caption id="attachment_14399" align="alignnone" width="621"] MIT researchers have built a new chip, hardwired to perform public-key encryption, that consumes only 1/400 as…