Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management. by Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Computer-network security breaches are never out of the news for […]
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management. by Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Computer-network security breaches are never out of the news for […]
Pi Day is coming on March 14! And not just any old Pi Day, but an “Epic Pi Day” on 3.14.15 at 9:26:53; that date/time corresponds to the first 10 digits of […]
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same […]
Pioneering techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionise the way that marine biologists and climate scientists study the ocean. This new approach, published in the journal Environmental Science […]
The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) 2015, co-chaired by a NASA researcher, published its latest report which details significant future increases in temperature, precipitation and sea level in the […]
Snow White hasn’t lost a dwarf, but science has, or rather, how new technology disproved a hypothesis. The new SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to search for […]
by Princeton University Communications Researchers from Princeton University and Uppsala University in Sweden have identified a gene in the Galápagos finches studied by English naturalist Charles Darwin that influences beak shape and […]
Three leading research funders from the UK and North America have joined forces to launch a new global initiative called MEND or, MEchanisms of cellular death in NeuroDegeneration, with a fund of […]
High-speed imaging captures raindrops releasing clouds of aerosols on impact. Ever notice an earthy smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the […]
Global Highlights The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature was 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average of […]
A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a land bridge from […]
America’s youngest scientists, increasingly losing research dollars, are leaving the academic biomedical workforce, a brain drain that poses grave risks for the future of science, according to an article published this week […]
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will go on to become egg and sperm – using human embryonic stem […]
When faced with making choices, but lack sufficient evidence to guarantee success, our brain uses elapsed time as a proxy for task difficulty to calculate how confident we should be, a […]