Saudi Arabia: Malicious Spyware App Identified
Saudi Arabia’s government should clarify whether it is infecting and monitoring mobile phones with surveillance malware, Human Rights Watch said. Saudi officials should also say whether and how they intend to protect the rights of those targeted to...
Diamond plates create nanostructures through pressure, not chemistry: Method is more ecological than chemical processes
Yet, in a current paper in Nature Communications, Sandia National Laboratories researcher Hongyou Fan and colleagues appear to have achieved a start toward that end.
Mysterious X-ray Signal Intrigues Astronomers
Measuring the mass of 'massless' electrons: Taming graphene, Harvard-led researchers successfully measure collective mass of ‘massless’ electrons in motion

A schematic of the experimental setup. Ham and Yoon measured the change in phase of a microwave signal sent through the graphene.
Astronomers map space’s icy wastes

In space, ice forms by building up a ‘frost-like’ layer on dust grains at a temperature of -263 degrees Celsius. The layer...
NASA Launches Earth Science Challenges with OpenNEX Cloud Data

NASA satellite data incorporated into OpenNEX include global views of drought conditions. Green...
Titan's Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn

New research on the nitrogen in Titan's atmosphere indicates that the moon's raw materials might have...
The Submillimeter Array: Celebrating a Decade of Discovery