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Finding A Virus Is Not All Bad News
March 6, 2006 Questions around the movement and population size changes of Kiwis, Tuatara and other New Zealand wildlife over the past hundred years have been continually studied by conservationists and ... > full story -
Hackers Beware New Technique Uses Photons, Physics To Foil Codebreakers
February 23, 2006 For governments and corporations in the business of transmitting sensitive data such as banking records or personal information over fibre optic cables, a new system demonstrated by University of ... > full story -
Spyware Poses A Significant Threat On The Net
February 4, 2006 Spyware programs represent an extensive threat to Internet users, according to a new study that surveyed the World Wide Web to find out what proportion of Web sites are trying to infect people with ... > full story -
New Technologies Enhance Quantum Cryptography
February 2, 2006 A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and Albion College, in Albion, Mich., ... > full story -
Toward A Quantum Computer, One Dot At A Time
January 19, 2006 Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in scale, known as quantum dots. The islands, made from germanium and ... > full story -
NIST Physicists Coax Six Atoms Into Quantum 'Cat' State
December 2, 2005 Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have coaxed six atoms into spinning together in two opposite directions at the same time, a so-called ... > full story -
Pushing The Limits Of Hard Disk Storage
October 10, 2005 Just how much data can we cram onto a hard disk ? In a paper appearing online today in Physical Review Letters, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Professor Harald Brune and his ... > full story -
Software 'Agents' Could Help Unmask Reality Of Disease Clusters
September 7, 2005 Concerns over the privacy of patients could be hampering efforts to spot disease clusters and monitor the health effects of environmental pollution, according to researchers in the latest edition of ... > full story -
Comprehensive Database Of Computer Vulnerabilities Now Available
August 11, 2005 Cyber attackers are constantly scanning the Internet looking for vulnerabilities in computer systems that will enable them to take control and use the systems for illegal or unethical activities such ... > full story -
NIST Demonstrates Better Memory With Quantum Computer Bits
August 11, 2005 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer memory lasting longer than 10 seconds -- ... > full story
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