KATHMANDU, March 20 — The American Physical Society’s (APS) Global Physics Summit wrapped up in Nepal on Thursday, bringing together scientists, researchers and policymakers to discuss advances in physics and their role in addressing global…
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…