Science

Britain Unveils Major Effort to Fight Global Online Crime

Britain has launched a multi-million-dollar global initiative to help fight organized criminals and terrorists using the Internet. The plan was rolled out at an international gathering in Budapest aimed at making the Internet more secure.

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NASA Sends Yeast to Space on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

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NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers A New Black Hole In Our Galaxy

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Nanoparticles against aging

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Internalization and controlled release of the fluorescent molecule rhodamine in senescent fibroblasts of patients with dyskeratosis...

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More certainty on uncertainty's quantum mechanical role: Researchers present findings at Frontiers in Optics 2012 that observation need not disturb systems as much as once thought, severing the act of measurement from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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A general method for measuring the precision and disturbance of any system. The system is weakly measured before the measurement...

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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the "Rocknest" site to give researchers...

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Ice-coated beauty in Mars’ Silver Island

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Topographical view Argyre Planitia

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Research Shows Graphene Nanopores Can Be Controlled: Less Costly Ways of Sequencing DNA Could Open New Possibilities for Disease Prevention

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These are transmission electron microscope images of a nanopore in graphene. The original pore on the left grows considerably under the...

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